Milk-Eyed Mender

Joanna Newsom - Milk-Eyed Mender

Milk-Eyed Mender
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Artist: Joanna Newsom
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Music Label: Drag City
Product features:
  • Rock
Soundtracks:
  1. Bridges And Baloons
  2. Sprout And The Bean
  3. The Book Of Right-On
  4. Sadie
  5. Inflammatory Writ
  6. This Side Of The Blue
  7. 'En Gallop'
  8. Cassiopeia
  9. Peach, Plum, Pear
  10. Swansea
  11. Three Little Babes
  12. Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie

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Free Music Review: Childlike, passionate debut - enliven's one faith in music
Hit: 5 Stars

Joanna Newsom's "The Milk-Eyed Mender" was a revelation to me on hearing it. Although I have listened to arty female singer/songwriters for a number of years, "The Milk-Eyed Mender" is totally unlike anything in the genre or anywhere else. Newsom might retain the childlike passion of so much of the best music in this genre, but the spin she puts on it is unlike anything I had heard.

The use of the harp as a folk instrument is of itself something unusual. Only in a few songs on The Sensual World had that instrument been heard in a "pop" context ever since the genre emerged. Despite this, Newsom shows that the harp, with its tight strings, has as much potential as a guitar or piano for singer/songwriter music. The opening track, "Bridges and Balloons", begins as a beautiful hum to which Newsom adds some utterly piercing vocals that anyone who listens carefully will admit to have genuine passion and strange beauty. "Sprout and the Bean" is actually even more intense and really funny at the same time: Newsom sounds so like a child who retains remarkably innocence, and her lyrics celebrate wondrous joy that few singer/songwriters (The Roches, Karen Peris or Joy Of Cooking's debut come to mind) ever manage.

"The Book of Right-On" is truly beautful and touching, whilst "Sadie" is even better. Newsom's voice seems to pierce even "harder" without her music losing resonance or even beauty over a full six minutes. "Inflammatroy Writ" shows Newsom could still sound funny, eccentric and delightful without her harp - the rhythm almost sounds like you can dance to it.

"Cassiopeia" is slower than any other track, but this benefits it because one really hears the true twinkle of Newsom's harp to a similar, danceable rhythm to "Inflammtory Writ". The vocal here is a genuine highlight: the song seems much longer than it is. "Peach, Plum, Pear" uses a harpsichord to accompany Newsom's beautful voice - and she plays it so lightly you can hear the rhythm as if it was someone dancing. "Swansea" is a childlike tale of fear with wonderful passion and depth, so that it sounds almost creepy, whilst "Three Little Babes" is a medieval tale played on piano on which Newsom sounds like a choir might if it were pushed to her own level of intensely. Closer "Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie" mainatians the stardard to round off one of the finest debuts in music history. Not in a long time before (nor ever since) have I heard an unknown talent produce such an original, intense, deep, passionate and beautiful record as "The Milk-Eyed Mender" is.

Newsom was to become much more ambtious on he next album Ys whilst still maintaining her trademarks here, but the childlike beauty of "The Milk-Eyed Mender" is still a must-hear for serious music fans.
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Debut album from Californian-born singer songwriter Joanna Newsom. A former member of San Francisco's The Pleased, Newsom's first solo release effortlessly blends the genres of folk and pop. The single 'Sprout And The Bean' is included.

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