{"product_id":"joanna-newsom-divers-cd","title":"Divers (CD)","description":"Good heavens — five years go by — what\r\ncan one do? Dive, listener, knowing that your next hour will be filled with\r\ndiversions aplenty: a wheeling circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties and cavalier\r\nballads, narrated from parts unknown; a family of polysemic song-sets; a\r\nparanomasaic Liederkreis of harmonic sympathies and knotted hierarchies; a\r\nfanfare of brazen puns and martial lullabies, blazing in sorrow and horseplay\r\nand love, in turns symphonic and spare, joined by Mellotrons and Marxophones\r\nand Moogs, clavichords and celestas—and of course the harp, thrumming its\r\nthrenodies of circadian invasions and avian irruptions and strange loops of\r\nShepard-toned resonant-frequencies and something called goddamned\r\nSimulacreage... The music of Divers is a wonder of considered arrangements — a taut line,\r\nthreaded with the pearls of passed and passing times...a round, a chant, an\r\nincantation...a ray of light diverted eleven ways, into eleven songs that\r\nstriate, in chromatic collusion, their simultaneous arc...a span that takes in\r\nlifetimes, but is immaculately sequenced for telescoped brevity. The music\r\nspeeds with dissociative dread over montaged cityscapes; it hoofs with delight\r\namong the collaged quotations and sepia-toned codices of Popular Song; it ambles\r\nits carefree citational course through the public domain and down into the\r\ndustier corners of municipal parks, to lionize infamous airmen and anonymous\r\nDutch Masters, to mourn pearl divers and Poorwills, and to elegize the\r\nineluctable tragedy of relativity — a tragedy of parochial time, anecdotal\r\ntime, dubious time... At the center of the mythos and the maelstrom is the\r\nwoman. Divers reminds us that Newsom is a melodist, above all — an acolyte of melody and beauty in\r\nform, a crackerjack of emotional truth conveyed with undiluted immediacy. “The\r\nThings I Say” seems a naked admission, after the epic swales of war and peace\r\nthat precede it, and yet this sudden moment of piano and voice falls seamlessly\r\ninto the flow, buffeted by the haunting winds of a musical saw and\r\ntime-slipping reversal at the finish. ...so that, at the aortic confluence of\r\nsuch a complexity of strings and wires, winking beneath the lacquered layers of\r\ninstrumental nacre, biding quietly between the ranges ofrhapsodic\r\narrangement—including those by Nico Muhly,\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: CD mini-LP style\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: CD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Joanna Newsom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42355825049681,"sku":"9XNFA7-7H6H-GR","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/5023\/8545\/files\/joanna-newsom-divers_iN8WV.jpg?v=1762524320","url":"https:\/\/apocalypsevinyl.com\/es\/products\/joanna-newsom-divers-cd","provider":"Apocalypse Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}