Joanna Newsom: The Milk-Eyed Mender (Drag City)
Richard Gehr, The Village Voice, 4 May 2004
THE INCREDIBLE String Band's cryptic whimsy and Vashti Bunyan's beautiful balladry have quietly resurfaced in a bushel of great new bands, and especially so, it seems, in the songs of such fairly uncategorizable young female Californians as Gwendolyn, Faun Fables' Dawn McCarthy, and Joanna Newsom.
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