Probably one of the most signal albums of the decade

Joanna Newsom has managed to create in her young career two great albums that, if you look at a closer, could hardly be more different. "Milk Eyed Mender", their brilliant debut was marked by simplicity, the singing was girlish naive, fragile. Newsom's second string, Ys, however, almost assumes epic proportions.

Why is it one of the best albums of this decade Music, is easy to answer. It's an album that works on many levels, and to convince all white. On the one hand there are the times in the music world dominated by dissonances almost unfamiliar, wonderfully harmonious compositions. Also vocally Ys is a stunner. Every emotion, every tremor, every high tone sits immaculately in this web of fantastic-worldly sounds.

And then there are these lyrics that without the music alone would be a masterpiece. Such allegories, images, metaphors and profundity has not gehört- in the music industry for ages, if at all. Inevitably one feels at Shakespeare reminds, because the stories that tells the charming Newsom here, as well as his works, never out of fashion, but act just now incredibly clear and remarkably sincere.

Only five songs contain this record, none of that is less than seven minutes. In any minute, however one wishes, a song would be shorter. Every moment is full of musical and thematic twists.

A remarkable and unique album that has to be heard.