I'm a few months late, but christ this album is amazing.

honestly I find it cringey

it's that kind of "rock classical" style that you hear on shit like Timbre and Kashiwa Daisuke and it's all so fucking pretentious and embarrassing

like "Leaving Home" sounds like a 14 year old wrote it

>>61602519
You mean Leaving the City? It was one of the weaker tracks but I still love it.

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>>61602553
its a great album, another strong entry into Joanna's already immaculate discography

I love the variety on it compared to her previous albums. Lots of different sounds which is needed cause the themes are all very similar. I've gotten a ton of replay value out of it.

Anecdotes is one of her best songs ever, especially the second half starting with the "Rushing, tearing, speeding home" verse. The winding harp sound is hypnotic.

It took me a while to listen to it (idk but i was reluctant) but yes it is amazing, as usual

It's her 'worst' album, but still like an 8/10. My personal fav is MEM but I think she was at her peak as an artist on Ys

it's a lot worse than hoom and ys

>>61602988
Nah it's clearly better tMEM, which has some great tracks but is really inconsistent. Her songwriting is a lot more mature of the later records. HOOM and Ys are definitely better though.

Divers makes ys Newsom sound like a shrill harpy, hoom Newsom sound like a spectral waif, and mem Newsom sound like a baby.

>>61603045
true, her voice has really developed into something powerful and controlled, she couldn't have pulled off that last high run on Sapokanikan, the choruses on Pin-Light, or the two big notes on YWNTMHA (which I think are probably the best example of "sublime" i've heard in a long time – brief, stunning, disorienting, crystal clear, gone) just five years ago. I'm glad her vocal training and treatment has done so well, she doesn't sound like she did in 2005 but she's much more in control of her voice and her range.

Can't get into the vocal style.