Any mixtape I ever make will always involve a disproportionate amount of tracks from this genius and Emily is sort of like the flagship of the Joanna Newsom fleet in terms of its ideas and scale. It is also one of the most ambitious songs ever written and, bloody hell, does it pull it off! It’s like a planet’s worth of imagery and narrative lighting up in one song. It comes at songwriting from a Classical tradition that’s completely alien to most Popular Music and yet it has none of the pretentions of Orchestral or Experimental Music. Its generous and open armed. This track instantly returns me to autumnal family holidays in Dartmoor, UK, when my late grandmother was still alive. She was such a mentor and inspiration to me and I will always secretly dedicate this song to her and to my wonderful family as a whole. Not that she or they were ever into Alternative Freak Folk, haha, but because this song has such an transformative ability to bring those lost and cherished days back to Life.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 04:43:12 +0000
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