DC561 2xLP/CD/CS Release Date: October 23, 2015 TRACK LISTING: Anecdotes – Sapokanikan – Leaving the City – Goose Eggs – Waltz of the 101st Lightborne – The Things I Say – Divers – Same Old Man – You Will Not Take My Heart Alive – A Pin-Light Bent – Time, As A Symptom ...further along and down the over our bones as we hear road apiece from where she the songs and sounds, the took her leave of us, Joanna players — among them Kevin Newsom plays on. Breathe deep Barker, Peter Newsom, Neal and equalize your today-ears to Morgan, and the City of Prague the new world of Divers... Philharmonic Orchestra — a n d the arrangements; as basic Good heavens — five years go maths are reviewed to uncover by — what can one do? Dive, heights of joy and sorrow, listener, knowing that your all traced in triumphal next hour will be filled with arches and supernumerary diversions aplenty: a wheeling rainbows through eternal circuit of sci-fi sea-shanties amber, gleaming in analog and cavalier ballads, narrated entrapment — with that VOICE from parts unknown; a family riding high atop; the vast of polysemic song-sets; a embodiments and boundless paranomasaic Liederkreis refinements of her singing of harmonic sympathies and suffused amid the tidal intake knotted hierarchies; a fanfare and outtake of cellulose of brazen puns and martial acetate — recorded with lullabies, blazing in sorrow and snow-bright, high-noon- horseplay and love, in turns verity by Steve Albini and symphonic and spare, joined Noah Georgeson, mixed in by Mellotrons and Marxophones phantasmagoric, deep-sea- and Moogs, clavichords and saturation by Noah and Joanna, celestas—and of course the and loosed, fuckin’ FINALLY, harp, thrumming its threnodies on October 23rd by Drag City of circadian invasions and avian At the center of the mythos and the Records. We have reached Peak Newsom. irruptions and strange loops of maelstrom is the woman. Divers reminds Divers is coming, to incline into your Shepard-toned resonant-frequencies us that Newsom is a melodist, above many and varied lifelines, for now and and something called goddamned all — an acolyte of melody and beauty in then and the rest of the moments that Simulacreage... form, a crackerjack of emotional truth will always return in your lifetimes The music of Divers is a wonder of conveyed with undiluted immediacy. again. considered arrangements — a taut line, “The Things I Say” seems a naked threaded with the pearls of passed and admission, after the epic swales of PS: The packaging of Divers is driven passing times...a round, a chant, an war and peace that precede it, and yet by the spectacular and otherworldly incantation...a ray of light diverted this sudden moment of piano and voice images of contemporary artist Kim eleven ways, into eleven songs that falls seamlessly into the flow, buffeted Keever, alongside photographs by striate, in chromatic collusion, their by the haunting winds of a musical Annabel Mehran. simultaneous arc...a span that takes saw and time-slipping reversal at the in lifetimes, but is immaculately finish. PPS: Intensive press, radio and sequenced for telescoped brevity. The ...so that, at the aortic confluence television promotional campaigns are music speeds with dissociative dread of such a complexity of strings and already underway in support of Divers. over montaged cityscapes; it hoofs with wires, winking beneath the lacquered delight among the collaged quotations layers of instrumental nacre, biding PPPS: The video premiere of and sepia-toned codices of Popular quietly between the ranges of “Sapokanikan” (directed by Paul Song; it ambles its carefree citational rhapsodic arrangement—including those Thomas Anderson) is only the course through the public domain by Nico Muhly, Ryan Francesconi, beginning for Divers — watch for and down into the dustier corners of Dave Longstreth, Dan Cantrell, and additional video events happening in municipal parks, to lionize infamous Newsom herself — there lies an intimacy time. airmen and anonymous Dutch Masters, seldom achieved, and simply heard. to mourn pearl divers and Poorwills, Divers dives forth with a pure love PPPPS: Joanna Newsom will be playing and to elegize the ineluctable tragedy and respect for the traditions and shows far and wide for a long time of relativity — a tragedy of parochial mysteries of man, such that we can following the release of Divers, don’t time, anecdotal time, dubious time... feel the surge of life itself passing worry! ALSO BY JOANNA NEWSOM DC336 DC263 DC287 DC303 “JOANNA NEWSOM & DC390 THE MILK-EYED MENDER “WHAT WE HAVE KNOWN” YS THE YS STREET BAND” HAVE ONE ON ME LP/CD 12” SINGLE 2xLP/CD 12”EP/CDEP 3xLP/3xCD DRAG CITY INC. P.O. BOX 476867 CHICAGO, IL 60647 PITCH PERFECT PR JESSICA LINKER PH 312.455.1015 FX 312.455.1057 [email protected] PH 773.271.6844 [email protected].