{"product_id":"joanna-newsom-divers-cassette","title":"Joanna Newsom - Divers - Cassette","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\r\nconsidered arrangements — a taut line, threaded with the pearls of passed and\r\npassing times...a round, a chant, an incantation...a ray of light diverted\r\neleven ways, into eleven songs that striate, in chromatic collusion, their\r\nsimultaneous arc...a span that takes in lifetimes, but is immaculately\r\nsequenced for telescoped brevity. The music speeds with dissociative dread over\r\nmontaged cityscapes; it hoofs with delight among the collaged quotations and\r\nsepia-toned codices of Popular Song; it ambles its carefree citational course\r\nthrough the public domain and down into the dustier corners of municipal parks,\r\nto lionize infamous airmen and anonymous Dutch Masters, to mourn pearl divers\r\nand Poorwills, and to elegize the ineluctable tragedy of relativity — a tragedy\r\nof parochial time, anecdotal time, dubious time... At the center of the mythos\r\nand the maelstrom is the woman. Divers reminds us that Newsom is\r\na melodist, above all — an acolyte of melody and beauty in form, a crackerjack\r\nof emotional truth conveyed with undiluted immediacy. “The Things I Say” seems\r\na naked admission, after the epic swales of war and peace that precede it, and\r\nyet this sudden moment of piano and voice falls seamlessly into the flow,\r\nbuffeted by the haunting winds of a musical saw and time-slipping reversal at\r\nthe finish. ...so that, at the aortic confluence of such a complexity of\r\nstrings and wires, winking beneath the lacquered layers of instrumental nacre,\r\nbiding quietly between the ranges ofrhapsodic arrangement—including those by Nico Muhly, Ryan Francesconi, Dave\r\nLongstreth, Dan Cantrell,\r\nand Newsom herself — there lies an intimacy seldom achieved, and simply\r\nheard. Divers dives forth with a pure love and respect for the traditions\r\nand mysteries of man, such that we can feel the surge of life itself passing\r\nover our bones as we hear the songs and sounds, the playe\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Rock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JITRE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: Cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Cassette\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Joanna Newsom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53605080105269,"sku":"U1SODT-OGOC-FL","price":14.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0763\/1391\/9797\/files\/joanna-newsom-divers_6hBff.jpg?v=1789720823","url":"https:\/\/www.rocknrollarecordshop.com\/products\/joanna-newsom-divers-cassette","provider":"ROCKnROLLA Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}