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** Moths represent grief on "Cosmia," and she hold a framed moth on the cover.
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** Moths represent grief on "Cosmia," and she hold holds a framed moth on the cover.
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* CoolCrown: Wears a flower crown on the cover.
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''Ys'' was critically acclaimed upon release, with much of praise directed towards Newsom's depth of lyricism and storytelling, with many critics calling it Newsom's masterpiece. The album made many publications' year end lists, and is now considered to be one of the best albums of the [[MusicOfThe2000s 2000s]], and a landmark album of the [[BaroquePop baroque pop]], [[SingerSongwriter singer-songwriter,]] and [[FolkMusic progressive folk]] genres.
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''Ys'' is the second studio album by harpist and [[SingerSongwriter singer-songwriter]] Music/JoannaNewsom, released November 16, 2006. It features orchestration by Van Dyke Parks and was produced by Music/SteveAlbini. Newsom says the songs on the album all contain [[WriteWhatYouKnow true stories]] about herself and important people in her life, dealing with themes of grief, loss, womanhood, and love.
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''Ys'' is the second studio album by harpist and [[SingerSongwriter singer-songwriter]] Music/JoannaNewsom, released November 16, 2006.2006 via record label Drag City. It features orchestration by Van Dyke Parks and was produced by Music/SteveAlbini. Newsom says the songs on the album all contain [[WriteWhatYouKnow true stories]] about herself and important people in her life, dealing with themes of grief, loss, womanhood, and love.
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Preceded by ''The Milk-Eyed Mender'' in 2004; Succeeded by ''Have One On Me'' in 2010.
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Preceded by ''The Milk-Eyed Mender'' in 2004; Succeeded by ''Have One On Me'' ''Music/HaveOneOnMe'' in 2010.
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* NewSoundAlbum: Unlike ''The Milk Eyed Mender'' which was defined mostly by just the harp (with an occasional piano, harpsichord, and steel guitar), ''Ys'' brings in a full orchestra on nearly song (except for ''Sawdust & Diamonds).
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* RearrangeTheSong: Done for "Cosmia" on the ''Ys Street Band'' EP, which is around thirteen minutes long compared to the seven-minute original recording.
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# Emily (12:08)
# Monkey & Bear (9:29)
# Sawdust & Diamonds (9:55)
# Only Skin (16:53)
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# Sawdust & Diamonds (9:55)
# Only Skin (16:53)
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# Emily "Emily" (12:08)
#Monkey "Monkey & Bear Bear" (9:29)
#Sawdust "Sawdust & Diamonds Diamonds" (9:55)
#Only Skin "Only Skin" (16:53)
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!!! Tracklist
# Emily (12:08)
# Monkey & Bear (9:29)
# Sawdust & Diamonds (9:55)
# Only Skin (16:53)
# Cosmia (7:17)
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# Emily (12:08)
# Monkey & Bear (9:29)
# Sawdust & Diamonds (9:55)
# Only Skin (16:53)
# Cosmia (7:17)
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storytelling, with many critics calling it Newsom's masterpiece. The album made many publications' year end lists, and is now considered to be one of the best albums of the [[MusicOfThe2000s 2000s]], and a landmark album of the [[BaroquePop baroque pop]], [[SingerSongwriter singer-songwriter,]] and [[FolkMusic progressive folk]] genres.
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* SopranoAndGravel: The climax of "Only Skin" features the baritone Music/BillCallahan harmonizing with Newsom, the soprano.
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** Moths represent grief on "Cosmia.""Cosmia," and she hold a framed moth on the cover.
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* EpicRocking: Making up for the short tracklist, the shortest song on the record is seven minutes, while three of them go over the ten-minute mark. "Only Skin," at sixteen minutes, is her longest song to date.
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* EpicRocking: Making up for the short tracklist, the shortest song on the record is seven minutes, while three of them go over the ten-minute mark.two are close to ten minutes, and one is almost twelve minutes. "Only Skin," at sixteen minutes, is her longest song to date.
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* MeaningfulName: Bear's name is Ursula, from "Ursus": "Bear." The song itself is s loose interpretation of the story of the Ursa Major constellation.
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* WorldOfSymbolism: A good majority of the lyrics are allegorical/metaphorical.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Newsom is occasionally guilty of this, but the best example of it is using "hydrocephalitic listlessness" to describe flowers that have been overwatered.
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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Implied on "Only Skin":
-->''Stay with me for a while; that's an awfully real gun\\
And though life will lay you down, as the lightning has lately done\\
Failing this, failing this, follow me, my sweetest friend\\
To see what you anointed in pointing your gun there\\
Lay it down! Nice and slow! There is nowhere to go''
-->''Stay with me for a while; that's an awfully real gun\\
And though life will lay you down, as the lightning has lately done\\
Failing this, failing this, follow me, my sweetest friend\\
To see what you anointed in pointing your gun there\\
Lay it down! Nice and slow! There is nowhere to go''
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* FlowerCrown: She wears one on the cover.
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[[caption-width-right:699:''I love you truly, or I love no one.'']]
->''"The people who hear this record will split into two crowds: The ones who think it's silly and precious, and the ones who, once they hear it, won't be able to live without it."''
-->--Chris Dahlen, [[https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9616-ys/ review]] of the album for ''Magazine/{{Pitchfork}}.''
''Ys'' is the second studio album by harpist and [[SingerSongwriter singer-songwriter]] Music/JoannaNewsom, released November 16, 2006. It features orchestration by Van Dyke Parks and was produced by Music/SteveAlbini. Newsom says the songs on the album all contain [[WriteWhatYouKnow true stories]] about herself and important people in her life, dealing with themes of grief, loss, womanhood, and love.
''Ys'' was critically acclaimed upon release, with much of praise directed towards Newsom's depth of lyricism and storytelling.
!!Tropes:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: A favored trope in Newsom's writing, there's quite a few moments of this.
* AnAesop: "Monkey & Bear" seems to have the structure of one, animals and everything. It also resembles ''Literature/AnimalFarm'': after Monkey and Bear escape from the humans masters, Monkey starts treating Bear like a slave, telling her that they need her dancing to make money. Monkey slowly becomes more and more human-like in behavior, and Bear doesn't stand up to him... instead, she chooses to [[spoiler: cast off her body, limb by limb, and vanish from Monkey's life]].
* AnimalMotif:
** The dove on "Sawdust & Diamonds." Doves are usually used as symbols for [[DovesMeanPeace peace and innocence]], and Newsom describes the dove to be "stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds," or taxidermied.
** Moths represent grief on "Cosmia."
* BaroquePop: The most fitting for this label in Newsom's discography.
* BeastFable: "Monkey & Bear," one of FracturedFairyTale variety.
* BitByBitTransformation: Bear's transformation [[spoiler: into the Ursa Major constellation. She's described abandoning her body limb by limb in the water before joining the stars]].
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover art is a detailed oil painting of Newsom in a medieval-style dress by artist Benjamin Vierling.
* DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob: What the Monkey makes Bear do for money.
--> ''Bear would stand on her hind legs, the organ would grind dregs of song\\
For the pleasure of the children who'd shriek, throwing coins at her feet then recoiling in terror''
* EpicRocking: Making up for the short tracklist, the shortest song on the record is seven minutes, while three of them go over the ten-minute mark. "Only Skin," at sixteen minutes, is her longest song to date.
* FlowerCrown: She wears one on the cover.
* FlowerMotifs: One stanza in the final verse of "Emily:"
--> ''Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now\\
Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow\\
Peonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow\\
With hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brow''
* GriefSong:
** The most common interpretation of "Sawdust & Diamonds" is that the dove is an allegory for the loss of an unborn child (possibly the same one written about on "Baby Birch").
** "Cosmia" is this much more straight-forwardly, written about a close friend of Newsom's who died in a car crash while on tour.
* ManipulativeBitch: The Monkey is described as using some emotionally abusive tactics on Ursula to keep her in his control, such as telling her that he'll "love her still" only if she continues to dance, and planning to insult Ursula after her bath so she'll stop going places without him.
* MeaningfulName: Bear's name is Ursula, from "Ursus": "Bear." The song itself is s loose interpretation of the story of the Ursa Major constellation.
* NonAppearingTitle: The title, ''Ys,'' is named after the mythical city on the coast of Brittany, France that was swallowed by the sea. The songs never mention the city or have much to do with the legend despite it taking the title.
* OneWomanSong: "Emily," named after her sister Emily Newsom.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Several lines of "Only Skin" suggest that the narrator's lover is one. The first few stanzas describe him having a nightmare about a war.
* StairwayToHeaven: Invoked with opening/closing lines of "Sawdust & Diamonds."
--> ''At the top of the flight, of the wide white stairs\\
For the rest of my life, do you wait for me there?''
* TextlessAlbumCover: One version of the cover has no text and just red borders on the sides of the illustration.
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[[caption-width-right:699:''I love you truly, or I love no one.'']]
->''"The people who hear this record will split into two crowds: The ones who think it's silly and precious, and the ones who, once they hear it, won't be able to live without it."''
-->--Chris Dahlen, [[https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9616-ys/ review]] of the album for ''Magazine/{{Pitchfork}}.''
''Ys'' is the second studio album by harpist and [[SingerSongwriter singer-songwriter]] Music/JoannaNewsom, released November 16, 2006. It features orchestration by Van Dyke Parks and was produced by Music/SteveAlbini. Newsom says the songs on the album all contain [[WriteWhatYouKnow true stories]] about herself and important people in her life, dealing with themes of grief, loss, womanhood, and love.
''Ys'' was critically acclaimed upon release, with much of praise directed towards Newsom's depth of lyricism and storytelling.
!!Tropes:
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: A favored trope in Newsom's writing, there's quite a few moments of this.
* AnAesop: "Monkey & Bear" seems to have the structure of one, animals and everything. It also resembles ''Literature/AnimalFarm'': after Monkey and Bear escape from the humans masters, Monkey starts treating Bear like a slave, telling her that they need her dancing to make money. Monkey slowly becomes more and more human-like in behavior, and Bear doesn't stand up to him... instead, she chooses to [[spoiler: cast off her body, limb by limb, and vanish from Monkey's life]].
* AnimalMotif:
** The dove on "Sawdust & Diamonds." Doves are usually used as symbols for [[DovesMeanPeace peace and innocence]], and Newsom describes the dove to be "stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds," or taxidermied.
** Moths represent grief on "Cosmia."
* BaroquePop: The most fitting for this label in Newsom's discography.
* BeastFable: "Monkey & Bear," one of FracturedFairyTale variety.
* BitByBitTransformation: Bear's transformation [[spoiler: into the Ursa Major constellation. She's described abandoning her body limb by limb in the water before joining the stars]].
* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The cover art is a detailed oil painting of Newsom in a medieval-style dress by artist Benjamin Vierling.
* DreadedKidsPartyEntertainerJob: What the Monkey makes Bear do for money.
--> ''Bear would stand on her hind legs, the organ would grind dregs of song\\
For the pleasure of the children who'd shriek, throwing coins at her feet then recoiling in terror''
* EpicRocking: Making up for the short tracklist, the shortest song on the record is seven minutes, while three of them go over the ten-minute mark. "Only Skin," at sixteen minutes, is her longest song to date.
* FlowerCrown: She wears one on the cover.
* FlowerMotifs: One stanza in the final verse of "Emily:"
--> ''Come on home, the poppies are all grown knee-deep by now\\
Blossoms all have fallen, and the pollen ruins the plow\\
Peonies nod in the breeze, and while they wetly bow\\
With hydrocephalitic listlessness, ants mop up their brow''
* GriefSong:
** The most common interpretation of "Sawdust & Diamonds" is that the dove is an allegory for the loss of an unborn child (possibly the same one written about on "Baby Birch").
** "Cosmia" is this much more straight-forwardly, written about a close friend of Newsom's who died in a car crash while on tour.
* ManipulativeBitch: The Monkey is described as using some emotionally abusive tactics on Ursula to keep her in his control, such as telling her that he'll "love her still" only if she continues to dance, and planning to insult Ursula after her bath so she'll stop going places without him.
* MeaningfulName: Bear's name is Ursula, from "Ursus": "Bear." The song itself is s loose interpretation of the story of the Ursa Major constellation.
* NonAppearingTitle: The title, ''Ys,'' is named after the mythical city on the coast of Brittany, France that was swallowed by the sea. The songs never mention the city or have much to do with the legend despite it taking the title.
* OneWomanSong: "Emily," named after her sister Emily Newsom.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Several lines of "Only Skin" suggest that the narrator's lover is one. The first few stanzas describe him having a nightmare about a war.
* StairwayToHeaven: Invoked with opening/closing lines of "Sawdust & Diamonds."
--> ''At the top of the flight, of the wide white stairs\\
For the rest of my life, do you wait for me there?''
* TextlessAlbumCover: One version of the cover has no text and just red borders on the sides of the illustration.
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