The Milk-Eyed Mender [Drag City, 2004]Not only does she sing in a fey little voice and fingerpick a damn harp, she hangs out with the wrong crowd--hippie folkies, basically. So snub her on principle if you like, but note this quatrain (yes, quatrain): "And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers/and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words/while across the sky sheet the impossible birds/in a steady illiterate movement homewards." Sorry, folks, that's s-m-a-r-t whether you like its drift or not, and there's plenty more where it came from. Right, she's chronically whimsical--the final song adduces dragons. But her whimsy is genuinely funny, and though the melodies fade on the second half, which damages the poetry, there at the end of the faintest one comes the wise warning: "Never get so attached to a poem/you forget truth that lacks lyricism." So I won't. A-
>>130668303Paid reviews don't just happen in gaming.
>>130668315He wasn't so kind to album two, lol.
>>130668303fuck this meme bitch
>>130668303why does God continue allowing Christgau to live?
A Lonely Island version Fiona Apple
>>130668303so if Joanna rapped about her pussy instead, it would be ok?
>>130669507not at all, they're extremely different people. Fiona was raped as a kid and is like a girl Jonathan Davis. Joanna is just a normie rich Stacy from California for whom music was a hobby she could easily walk away from.
Not that zoomer newfags know it but Joanna once meant everything on /mu/.
>>130668303Bad writer
>>130668303Her only good album
