I listened to it every time I had to make the five hour drive home to visit family for about a year and a half. It would take up about half of that drive.

They've always had kind of an anti-Joanna Newsom vibe, too, even before they only used freelancers to do their music reviews. Not a single person listed Ys on their top music list in 2006, and I think the same is true of Have One on Me (though I think at that point they had pretty much given up on music reviewing). I…

Yes! I saw her just a month or so ago (opening for Rasputina), and I bought her record. Love the shit out of it, but I haven't gotten her new one yet (it came out on Tuesday), mostly because I wanted to give Divers my undivided attention.

I'm really surprised the review doesn't mention Bush. Normally reviewers can't mention Newsom without bringing up Bush. I can definitely see the influence, and the high-pitched voice definitely brings her to mind, but I don't hear all that much Bush in her. More Bush, though, than Joni Mitchell. The A.V. Club also…

I thought I had heard she was hired to write the theme song for the Muppets TV show (the new one) but they didn't use it. I don't know, Google it.

I LOVE Spektor's first two (studio) albums, but she kind of became boring by her third. Apple I've never liked all that much.

I'd say that album is about one third exceptional, one third good, a little less than one third okay, and about five or so unlistenable "experimental" songs scattered throughout. It's really the perfect album to have on iPod/iTunes, because the songs probably work better scattered about than all at once.

She was surprisingly excellent as an actress.

Just finished my first listen. I loved it, as always. If I do have a complaint, it's that it leans far more toward piano than harp. I love Newsom's harp playing simply because it's not an instrument you hear often in pop music, where piano is extremely common. But when the compositions are as beautiful as they are…

So I actually did go see this this morning - it's lousy. C+ is way higher than what I would have given it.

Never heard of her, but I always try to see opening acts. You never know when you're going to discover something great. Even if they stink, they don't usually play for too long.

Well, that's a huge mistake. That album is mostly gold. And the songs are only like 3 minutes long, max. I have two different versions of that album on my iTunes, the original and a whole covers album.

Truth be told, I'm a huge fan, but I wasn't too happy with the first song she released. Hopefully it'll improve for me on the record itself. That said, I can totally understand how Newsom is offputting to some. Her voice is odd, for sure.

I think Pitchfork (don't judge me) had the best advice about approaching Have One on Me: treat it like three different albums. Don't think of it as one really long one.

I know people liked to bitch about the length of Have One on Me, but I swear I listened to that record like 500 times in the year and a half after it was released.

Shoulder Parrot: 4 Stars.

I found that one pretty exhausting myself. I've liked most of his other works a lot. I recently picked up Why Don't We Play in Hell, which I won't be able to watch until after October (only watch horror films in October if I can help it). I'll probably buy Tokyo Tribe, as well as Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse, when they…

I always wanted to go back to the review and look, but someone had to make a "Ew, smells like a Van Houten" joke when she queefed that demon, right?

The one who's actually hot.

His gawky tambourine jamming made me laugh so much.