Joanna Newsom talks to Paste about her new album, "Ys"
By DJ M on November 4th, 2006
In Miscellaneous Music
PASTE MAGAZINE "These forms are closer to what I was exploring in school, back when I thought I was going to be, like, a ‘composer.' In those times, I certainly thought there were particular music-making conventions and parameters which differed between ‘compositions’ and ‘songs.’ And when I was studying composition, formally, I really expanded my songs to Wt what I thought was a permissible shape and size. And when I decided to work more on ‘songs,’ I cut and cut and cut. People who have the earliest versions of some of the songs that later made it onto my first Drag City release can attest: they started out longer than they ended up."