{"id":6929,"date":"2015-10-26T08:50:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2015-11-10T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T15:53:37","slug":"joanna-newsoms-divers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/26\/joanna-newsoms-divers\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Newsom&#8217;s DIVERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/10\/joanna-newsom-divers-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">from PASTE Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Joanna Newsom: Divers Review By Mack Hayden<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.pastemagazine.com\/www\/articles\/2015\/10\/26\/joanna-newsom-divers.jpg\" alt=\"Joanna Newsom: &lt;i&gt;Divers&lt;\/i&gt; Review\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was a non-believer for a pretty long time. Joanna Newsom was an artist I just didn\u2019t \u201cget.\u201d I was too busy being pretentious about Pavement in my younger years to really give her quirky, baroque complexities and off-kilter vocal style a chance. Hell, I even came around on liking Swans before her stuff clicked for me. Hopefully, my initial disinterest and naivet\u00e9 may convince another skeptical listener to give Newsom\u2019s new album,\u00a0<i>Divers<\/i>, a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom definitely requires some patience of her listeners, not to mention a palate accustomed to outside-the-norm instrumentation. She\u2019s long been upheld as an indie goddess, but her music exists far from the label\u2019s general conventions. There are barely any guitars and, when there are, they\u2019re in the background. The drums are spare, and she\u2019ll always go for a traditional piano over a synth. She plays a harp, her voice indulges in nuances unique enough to almost go beyond the realm of mimicry, and her previous record, 2010\u2019s\u00a0<i>Have One On Me<\/i>, went a few minutes past two hours in length.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you put her on a mix CD for someone whose only experience of \u201cindie\u201d up to that point was Death Cab for Cutie, they\u2019d probably snap it in half or you\u2019d at least get a \u201cwhat the hell is this?\u201d text. But, like so many other at-first-difficult artists or bands, once her stuff clicks with you, it sticks forever. She\u2019s got the musical ingenuity to go from being a frustration to a favorite in one second\u2019s worth of enlightening epiphany.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2015\/10\/joanna-newsom-divers-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at PASTE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from PASTE Magazine Joanna Newsom: Divers Review By Mack Hayden I was a non-believer for a pretty long time. Joanna Newsom was an artist I just didn\u2019t \u201cget.\u201d I was too busy being pretentious about Pavement in my younger years to really give her quirky, baroque complexities and off-kilter vocal style a chance. Hell, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}