Joanna Newsom - Divers Vinyl 2LP

Five years in the making, Divers finds Joanna Newsom plunging listeners into a richly imagined world of sea-shanties, ballads, and baroque folk experiments. Across eleven intricately sequenced songs, she threads harp, Mellotron, Marxophone, clavichord, and Moog into a dazzling lattice of arrangements. The album brims with wordplay and historical allusion, shifting from symphonic grandeur to hushed intimacy. Newsom’s narratives roam from mythic airmen to anonymous painters, pearl divers to night birds, all orbiting her central theme: time — its losses, its loops, and its strange simultaneities. Divers is both sprawling and precise, an elegy and a celebration, telescoping lifetimes into just over an hour of music.