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Ys

by Joanna Newsom

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2000's

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2006

of 33,755

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Overall Rating: 3.5554 Ys is ranked overall as 3.5554 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.3876 Ys has an avg. critic score of 3.3876 out of 4 stars

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cokemachineglow

If you give it a chance (or maybe even a dozen chances, if you can stand it), and don't immediately dismiss it because it's by Joanna, I’m sure you’ll find something to love. ...more

Playlouder

She has issued a treasure. She has floored us again. ...more

Blender

The emotional peaks are so sharp, the wordplay so juicy, that all excesses are redeemed. ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes

No album will ever move you quite like it, and if it weren't for a slight misstep, it would be perfect in almost every way. ...more

New Musical Express

Newsom has managed to lessen the twee factor of her last record... in the process crafting an album as bewitching as it is odd. ...more

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BBC collective

It’s to her great credit that Newsom (literally) plucks artistic triumph from the jaws of cloying whimsy. ...more

Tiny Mix Tapes.com

First, a little background about this particular review (for those of you who just may be slightly interested): This is easily the toughest review I’ve ever written. Any way I tackled it, nothing was making sense. I spent days on a ...more

Playlouder

A pre-teen, octogenarian, thousand-year-old courtesan who serenades monkeys and sawdust and diamonds; who carves music with sickles and ringlets and blackbirds; and who croons like Bjork, Kate Bush, Billie Holiday; Joanna Newsom is remarkable star. ...more

The Independent

"Only Skin" is the longest and most involved song, a pantheistic piece in which opposites - dream and wakefulness, earth and water, animate and inanimate, day and night - shade into each other as Newsom relates the epiphanic experience of rescuing ...more

Uncut

When imported '80s synth-pop ruled the airwaves, Steve Wynn's Dream Syndicate lay in thrall to the time-honoured buzz of the Marshall stack. By mid-decade, they were at the forefront of the new American breed that, in turn, helped repopularise ...more

Amazon.com

An album that sounds unlike anything else. ...more

Dot Music

In a bid to make a startling epic work, she's concentrated on the form and neglected the content. ...more

Blogcritics

Ys may not be clasped to the publics collective bosom, but, like all the Dylans and Fitzgeralds before her, Newsom deserves to be seen as much more than just "art". ...more

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