If you interpret the storybook feel (not Disney, don't know where you got that from) in the sense that it's vital to the communication of the subject matter (it really, really is), it might grate on you less. Also, that track has by far the most intensive and suitable orchestration on the album. It's sublime. The orchestra is so vital to and cohesive with Newsom's playing that it's almost impossible to have it any other way~
The album really isn't "positive and uplifting" as you describe it. All the songs are actually intensely sad. Monkey & Bear is probably the least melancholy simply because you could interpret it in a positive way (if you wanted to), and it's even more disheartening that the only track that pulls us into potential positivity is so fantastical (although entirely allegorical) and therefore the most detached from Newsom herself.
I have Milk-Eyed and YS on Vinyl purely because I fell in love with the album artwork so much that I wanted to frame it. You have no idea how gorgeous it is until you see it over a foot by a foot big in amazing quality.
Also, the lyric book is almost truely a book at that point. It's huge and the artwork inside of it is gorgeous.
If you interpret the storybook feel (not Disney, don't know where you got that from) in the sense that it's vital to the communication of the subject matter (it really, really is), it might grate on you less. Also, that track has by far the most intensive and suitable orchestration on the album. It's sublime. The orchestra is so vital to and cohesive with Newsom's playing that it's almost impossible to have it any other way~
Uktrayf 1 year ago
The album really isn't "positive and uplifting" as you describe it. All the songs are actually intensely sad. Monkey & Bear is probably the least melancholy simply because you could interpret it in a positive way (if you wanted to), and it's even more disheartening that the only track that pulls us into potential positivity is so fantastical (although entirely allegorical) and therefore the most detached from Newsom herself.
Uktrayf 1 year ago
I have Milk-Eyed and YS on Vinyl purely because I fell in love with the album artwork so much that I wanted to frame it. You have no idea how gorgeous it is until you see it over a foot by a foot big in amazing quality.
Also, the lyric book is almost truely a book at that point. It's huge and the artwork inside of it is gorgeous.
LanIost 1 year ago
thank you for providing at least one video review of this album. its a special record i expect will be considered her masterpiece.
seraphlaim 1 year ago