Why do people keep saying this? How can you not be touched by Ys? I have never cried to an album as much as I did to Ys. Lyrics like: “We could stand for a century / Staring / With our heads cocked / In the broad daylight at this thing / Joy / Landlocked / In bodies that don’t keep / Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being / ‘Til we don’t be / Told / Take this / And eat this.”
Ys is emotionally packed, to the point that every time i listen to it i get shivers. Just reading the lyrics gives me goosebumps. Yes, when I first heard “Sadie” my heart sank and tears rose but prior to Ys, Joanna had the ability to make me cry on only a couple of songs from both MEM and WW (“Sadie”, “Cassiopeia”, “Swansea”, “En Gallop”, and “Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie”). As for Ys, every single song has awoken emotions that no other artist/album/song has ever done. I find Joanna’s vast and arcane/archaic vocabulary only adds a mysterious depth and emotional appeal to her songs. The way the music complements the words helps but the words have their own personal appeal. Maybe it’s just me, but is anyone else as confused as I am about this mindset some people seem to have?
And why do I have this gnawing feeling that with this new album, HOOM, Joanna is trying to remind us
“Never get so attached to a poem / You forget truth that lacks lyricism”? Just a thought.
Why do people keep saying this? How can you not be touched by Ys? I have never cried to an album as much as I did to Ys. Lyrics like: “We could stand for a century / Staring / With our heads cocked / In the broad daylight at this thing / Joy / Landlocked / In bodies that don’t keep / Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being / ‘Til we don’t be / Told / Take this / And eat this.”
Ys is emotionally packed, to the point that every time i listen to it i get shivers. Just reading the lyrics gives me goosebumps. Yes, when I first heard “Sadie” my heart sank and tears rose but prior to Ys, Joanna had the ability to make me cry on only a couple of songs from both MEM and WW (“Sadie”, “Cassiopeia”, “Swansea”, “En Gallop”, and “Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie”). As for Ys, every single song has awoken emotions that no other artist/album/song has ever done. I find Joanna’s vast and arcane/archaic vocabulary only adds a mysterious depth and emotional appeal to her songs. The way the music complements the words helps but the words have their own personal appeal. Maybe it’s just me, but is anyone else as confused as I am about this mindset some people seem to have?
And why do I have this gnawing feeling that with this new album, HOOM, Joanna is trying to remind us
“Never get so attached to a poem / You forget truth that lacks lyricism”? Just a thought.