

Bottom/ Have One on Me is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom, released on February 23, 2010 via Drag City as the official follow up to the harpirst's highly acclaimed second studio release, 2006's Ys. It is a triple album produced by herself and mixed by long-time collaborators Jim O'Rourke and Noah Georgeson, with the accompanying arrangements by Ryan Francesconi. Have One on Me received perfect scores and extremely positive evaluations by many publications, as well as earning Newsom favorable comparisons to other singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Rickie Lee Jones and Kate Bush. Allison Stewart of The Washington Post called Have One on Me "her magnum opus, a three-disc set being likened to a freak-folk Sandinista!, though it feels more like a musical Ulysses."Paste Magazine's Jeff Vrabel referred to it as a "panoramic dreamworld" and declared that "Have One on Me is packed with magic." Spin's Andy Beta expressed that Newsom "gives what few artists can deliver: a self-contained world of warmth, crystalline detail, and intimacy that lies far beyond a Twitter feed" in his 4 star review. Will Dean of The Guardian pointed that "at two-hours-plus, it's a record that demands concentration to appreciate its splatterings of beauty. But pour yourself a glass and listen, because they don't make them like this too often."Zach Schonfeld of PopMatters described it as "the closest Newsom will come to a Blood on the Tracks — a confessional opus, straight from the gut." Top/ The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch and Go, 2007) is the third full length studio album by CocoRosie. It was produced by Valgeir Sigurðsson, Björk's longtime collaborator. CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years. As children, the sisters spent summers with their father, an Iowa farmer who became interested in Native American religion, while he visited Indian reservations and took part in vision quests. The album's cover is a photo by Pierre et Gilles that features Sierra, Bianca, and Bianca in drag. Their music has been called "freak folk", and incorporates elements of pop,blues, opera, electronica, and hip hop. On May 13, 2008, CocoRosie released a new single entitled "God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me". The nomadic duo (currently and temporarily residing in New Mexico) spent much of 2008 writing and recording in Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Berlin, New York, and Paris, finding amazing and diverse musicians to collaborate along the way. The result is their 11-song 2010 Sub Pop debut, Grey Oceans. CocoRosie was named the 16th most influential artist of the decade by betterPropaganda in 2009.



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