Album Review: Joanna Newsom - Divers
Joanna Newsom is the ultimate marmite artist. With her 2004 debut album, the Milk-Eyed Mender, she was pigeonholed as the ‘indie-pop Olive Oyl’, a reference to antediluvian cartoon character Popeye’s croaking girlfriend.
To some, her alien trill was fascinatingly unconventional. Many, however, considered it a deal-breaker — how to take seriously a singer whose frisky ululations seemed an open-and-shut example of weird for weirdness’s sake?
