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Joanna Newsom: Divers

Andy Gill, The Independent, 23 October 2015

"WHY IS THE PAIN of birth lighter borne than the pain of death?" asks Joanna Newsom on the title-track of her first release in five years, one of two impressive and thoughtful album-length meditations upon love and death released this week. 

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