It may be a stretch to call Joanna Newsom’s third album her down-to-earth pop record. "Have One On Me" does, after all, extend across three CDs of generally very long songs, features a harp duelling with a kora, and a dream sequence in which the singer arrives before her lover “on a palanquin made of the many bodies of beautiful women.” On the back of an elephant.
Great start this morning, as I’ve just cracked open the new Prins Thomas album, which seems to carry on right where Lindström & Thomas’ “II” left off. In other goodish news, this long-running dickaround will finally be resolved in the next couple of days. I imagine you’ve all guessed what it is now?
Loving this today: Baloji’s “Karibu Ya Bintou”, an incredible Belgian/Congolese hip hop track rooted in the reverberant scrap clatter of Konono N°1. The video’s great, too, filmed on the streets of Kinshasa and culminating in some pretty intense wrestling.
