Newsom Joanna - Divers LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. 2015 release from the harpist, keyboardist, singer and songwriter. Divers is Newsom's first album since 2010. Good heavens - five years go by - what can one do Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with diversions aplenty a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier ballads, narrated from parts unknown a family of polysemic song-sets a paranomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies a fanfare of brazen puns and martial lullabies, blazing in sorrow and horseplay and love, in turns symphonic and spare, joined by Mellotrons and Marxophones and Moogs, clavichords and celestas and of course the harp, thrumming its threnodies of circadian invasions and avian irruptions and strange loops of Shepard-toned resonant-frequencies and something called goddamned Simulacreage. The music of Divers is a wonder of considered