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After seeing her name pop up over and over in various articles and interviews, I finally decided to give her a listen. Human words can't fully describe the sound of her music, so I'll let the video do the talking:
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This was a surprising direction after the poppy sweetness of Milk-Eyed Mender. This album of 5 10-minute+ songs plays like a movie score. It's much more produced but much more beautiful and mature than MEM. Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth) and Van Dyke Parks (Beach Boys collaborator) scored, directed and generally had a hand in the arrangement of the album. Ys is coming out November 14th on Drag City, but leaked on the Internet over a month ago. I'm prematurely calling it a... MORE
