Not only does she sing in a fey little voice and fingerpick a damn harp, she hangs out with the wrong crowd--hippie folkies, basically. So snub her on principle if you like, but note this quatrain (yes, quatrain): "And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers/and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words/while across the sky sheet the impossible birds/in a steady illiterate movement homewards." Sorry, folks, that's s-m-a-r-t whether you like its drift or not, and there's plenty more where it came from. Right, she's chronically whimsical--the final song adduces dragons. But her whimsy is genuinely funny, and though the melodies fade on the second half, which damages the poetry, there at the end of the faintest one comes the wise warning: "Never get so attached to a poem/you forget truth that lacks lyricism." So I won't. A-
Anonymous
8/13/2025, 5:54:36 PM
No.127384026
>>127383544 (OP)
It works as a form of demented novelty music but only in small doses.
>>127383544 (OP)
Why is this board obsessed with Christgau? Is this a bot?
Anonymous
8/13/2025, 6:00:16 PM
No.127384073
>>127384149
>>127384052
Joanna was essential /mu/core once upon a time.
Anonymous
8/13/2025, 6:13:20 PM
No.127384149
>>127384073
Emphasis on once upon a time.
Anonymous
8/13/2025, 7:15:28 PM
No.127384588
>>127384052
>bot
no
>board obsessed with Christgau
no. you must thinking about fagtano
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 12:23:53 AM
No.127387006
>>127387173
This is why I love this guy. I personally would rate anything 'chronically whimsical' an F. But this guy is s-m-a-r-t. He knows it's shit but it fits into his worldview perfectly. The music does not matter at all to the music critic. Cristgau deserves credit for blatantly stating it in every single review. I find it entertaining since his reviews are short and pithy and I'm probably d-u-m-b. B+
Anonymous
8/14/2025, 12:48:36 AM
No.127387173
>>127387006
>I'm probably d-u-m-b
well at least that part's accurate
