Joanna NewsomBest Joanna Newsom Albums Ranked
9.0
Avg Score
28
Opinions
7
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 28 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Joanna Newsom's catalog across 7 albums from 28 opinions, with an overall average of 9.0/10. The top-rated Joanna Newsom album is Ys (2006) with a 9.1/10 average from 6 ratings, followed by Have One On Me and Divers. The discography on Wavelength spans 2004 to 2015. Good Intentions Paving Co. ranks as the highest-rated Joanna Newsom song on Wavelength with a 9.8/10 average.
Ys
“The inimitable singer-songwriter quickly follows the formally ambitious Ys with a three-song EP consisting of one new song and two old ones, recorded live in the studio with four members of her acoustic touring band.”
Have One On Me
“The full-length follow-up to Ys is no less ambitious, but this 3xLP set also has some of the most inviting and accessible songs of Newsom's career.”
Divers
“On her fourth album, Divers, Joanna Newsom comes down in size if not scope. A love letter in the form of a reckoning with death, Divers deals with making tangible the huge mass of impending doom about the loss of love. You know, the small stuff. It's a gorgeous record, full of her usual harp wilyness and baroque rhythms.”
Divers
“Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom's latest record is equally beautiful and conceptual.”
Divers
“"We mean to stop, in increments, but can't commit/We post and sit, in impotence/The harder you hit, the deeper the dent," Joanna Newsom spits on "Leaving The City" — a storm system of consonance and assonance that morphs between harp-led Renaissance courtly dance and social-media-damning, Mellotron-amped rap rock. The California-bred singer-songwriter may represent like an ambassador for the Socie”
The Milk-Eyed Mender
“During an interview at a kitchen table in Soho sometime last month, Will Oldham mentioned Joanna Newsom as one of his favorite storytellers. At the time, I'd only passingly listened to her two self-released EPs, and was more familiar with her keyboard work with San Francisco's The Pleased and harp contributions to the Deerhoof/Hella side project Nervous Cop. But that's changed with the release of ”
Have One On Me
“Despite a couple of highs, I really can’t get behind this one I’m sorry. I’m convinced nobody has ever listened to the whole thing. I’ve tried so many times. I just don’t get it.”
Ys
“Some lulls in the middle definitely. But the opener is all time. I think this is her best project.”
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