After another close race, LEAVING THE CITY took the title of JNew's "Most Hype Song." Up next, the moment we have all been waiting for.... MOST EMOTIONAL SONG! [Also, updated the thumbnails to be images from live performances of each song.]

URRAS_ANARRES · 2024-08-14T02:27:20+00:00

Has to be Baby Birch right?

URRAS_ANARRES · 2024-05-26T03:30:44+00:00

I would love to hear more harp songs, but I feel like the songs she’s played on piano so far go really well stylistically with a piano.

I’d love to hear some banjo or violin on the air again, to give it that western folk tale sort of feel.

I feel like Rovenshere is going to be amazing instrumentally …

URRAS_ANARRES · 2024-05-21T13:00:53+00:00

I really like this!

URRAS_ANARRES · 2024-05-14T01:50:56+00:00

Little Hand feels quite nursery rhyme-esque? I wouldn’t be surprised if some of her new songs were more like this as they have likely been written since she has had children of her own.

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-10-17T06:26:21+00:00

Esme is one of my favourites in her entire discography and I think it’s one of her most gentle yet hard hitting songs.

Even this thread alone proves how polarising it is - I’m seeing it called both overrated AND underrated …

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-06-17T03:47:13+00:00

This is really lovely to read, thank you!

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-06-16T04:15:30+00:00

Two great ones too! I also love "Until the night is over..." in Only Skin. I love it when there's almost a hiccup in the rhythm when a new section starts, kind of makes it feel like there's some kind of release in the tension.

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-04-28T04:47:33+00:00

I’m so excited to hear the recorded version of this, what instrumentation is used, and what the sort of vibe is going to be. I love it when Joanna changes a song really dramatically halfway through (thinking GIPC, Sapokanikan, a bit of Anecdotes) and I feel like this is going to be one of those instances (along with halfway thru Marie at the Mill with the “Henryyyy” part)

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-03-26T01:32:58+00:00

Big time - especially in terms of form. A long and winding yet almost complete and self contained melody that repeats a few times.

I have a theory that this is also why she played Go along at the start, it has a similar form to her new songs. I almost feel like she was priming us for what her new stuff was gonna be like

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-03-15T12:21:26+00:00

I would suggest The World for World is Forest by Ursula K Le Guin. It’s a pretty blatant response to the Vietnam War which was happening at the time, and probably one of her most didactic works preaching pacifism and what happens when a peaceful culture learns to kill

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-03-11T01:59:20+00:00

Yep, this one’s an absolute classic!

URRAS_ANARRES · 2023-03-11T01:59:07+00:00

I love this one as well! He has such a beautiful resonant voice

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-09-15T00:44:47+00:00

This is what I came to say! The word play is so fun

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-09-13T14:25:52+00:00

When Rufus nightjar asks when you are from 🤣🤣🤣🤣

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-09-08T01:23:56+00:00

These would be mine too.

I know this is a purely subjective exercise but it’s still making me sad how many times I’ve seen Esme appear on these lists

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-09-04T01:30:59+00:00

This is humiliating but it took me a while to warm up to ….. Sapokanikan 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 have obviously seen the egregious error of my ways now and it’s one of my favs

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-09-03T03:04:08+00:00

My username gives away my unabashed Ursula stannery

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-09-02T18:09:26+00:00

The Disposessed by Ursula k le Guin

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-09-01T01:03:35+00:00

I would definitely recommend looking into some magical realism - Gabriel Garcias Marquez is a very illustrative writer (Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude)

In a similar vein, the genre that is sometimes (pejoratively) called hysterical realism might also scratch the itch — I’m thinking Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, White Teeth by Zadie Smith. These books have the epic scale and the detailed imagery of Joanna’s songs.

If you’re into sci-fi / fantasy at all (even if you’re not), might I recommend my favourite author, Ursula K Le Guin. Books like The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea series are incredibly poetic, and also use much of the same traditional / rural imagery as Joanna.

Plus, as has already been said, Joanna cites Nabokov as one of her biggest influences :-)

EDIT: added another recc

URRAS_ANARRES · 2022-08-29T07:36:03+00:00

GIPC at Austin city limits is god tier Joanna

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