Ys by Joanna Newsom

A once-a-life moment, forged into the shape of an album. These five songs are worth a thousand pictures, and that adds up to a million words - and that's almost as many words as there are in the libretto for this epic (pron. epoch). But when words aren't enough....ah, just say "Ys," okay?

Joanna unearthed from the granite lode of Northern California in the early aughts. She commenced releasing music in 2003 – a deceptively, elaborately singular mix of voice, harp and piano. Joanna has since been all round this world, on concert tours and television and film productions. Her epic conceptions have filled four insatiably acclaimed albums on Drag City.