Track Listing

1. Colleen
2. Clam Crab Cockle Cowrie
3. Cosmia

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21397 in Music
• Released on: 2007-04-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: EP

Customer Reviews

Interesting Fantastic Delicious
This is a mysteriou and beguiling taster of her extradinary style not for everyone but for me yes
This EP can become frustrating as one hungers for more.or this may be just enough so leave the table before fully sated else become sickened.
Joanne's creaky cutsey voice and unconventional renditions of songs weave their spells.
Looking forward to hear how this artist develops.

another 5 star review
I see no need to write another long review...Just thought I'd give a quick 5 star review of this amazing album to confirm the other reviews...Some of the melodies get stuck in your head and you start singing them constantly...Though some of the complex lyricism takes a little longer to commit to memory. Quality over quantity definitely makes her work much stronger, especially with the extra instrumentation. Though ultimately it is Joanna's piercing yet beautiful heartfelt vocals combined with the lush delicacy of her harp which truly make this album so special. My favourite is perhaps the final track, 'Cosmia', though they are all genuinely unique and worth your time. So, get to the store and pick up a copy!!!

Expectations Exceeded
I don't suppose you need me to tell you that Miss Joanna Newsom is some kind of genius. What you might need me to tell you is that Y's is, it would seem just a taster of what she has to offer. Here on the ridiculously expensive but almost justifiable (if only due to the quality of music on offer here) 3 track Y's Street Band EP we see a taster of the first new material since the aforementioned Y's if only in the form of one new song and two reworkings.

New track Colleen as showcased at ATP is as beautiful and as remarkable as remembered. I remember on the night I had mixed expectations of something new, so often have a band I loved been picked up by the media and then delivered something ridiculously bad or at least lacking the ingenuity of their early work. Joanna it would seem has no such problem for now, Colleen is outstanding, a true work of genius, an instant classic, timeless and charming, a song that puts what was possibly the most outstanding opening track to an album in sometime, Emily from Y's, into the background, or at least out of the limelight. If anyone had a problem with her voice as on the Milk Eyed Mender then here is a more palatable, less shrill tone to sweep up those curious outsiders, those who take that little extra convincing, those who think more than two colours in an outfit is risky, how can you fail to love Colleen?

Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie from the Milk Eyed Mender & Cosmia from Y's are reworked in a more intimate setting, the latter given a lush new feel, this is a portable Cosmia, Cosmia as played by Joanna and her friends in a room full of friends. Intimate and inventive and more charming for it.

If expectations weren't high enough already for any possible follow up to the landmark Y's then they have just been raised considerably with this release.