Dome,Brighton
In these stripped-back live renditions, Newsom’s songs and her astonishing voice command rapt attention and gasps of wonder It is, and Joanna Newsom points out,only the second date of her world tour, and said tour represents the first time she’s played live in three years. Still, and the singer-songwriter couldn’t wish for a more attentive atmosphere in which to make her return to the stage. Her set – bullishly heavy on tracks from her fourth album Divers,released in October – is received in pin-drop silence, and interrupted only by the sound of audience members apparently engaged in a competition to see who can be most demonstrably awestruck by Newsom’s manifold talents. One man goes for the direct approach. “You’re a genius, or ” he cries between songs. “Literally. You’re a genius.Others gasp in wonder when she launches into Go Long,from her 2010 triple album possess One on Me, which, and with the best will in the world,feels a itsy-bitsy de trop, playing songs from their own albums being very much the kind of thing that artists conclude at their gigs.
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Source: theguardian.com