To say that Have One On Me, Joanna Newsom’s new two-hour triple-disc, is a challenging listen is an understatement. It’s a well-wrought record to be sure, and Newsom’s songwriting—both lyrically and structurally—are more ambitious than ever, and she’s inched just close enough to the borders of indie-folk to keep the untrained listener happy. But it’s [...]

Listening to Joanna Newsom has always required certain things: patience, trust, an ability to overlook cosmetic flaws in favor of the more complete picture, more patience. Her precedent releases—2004’s Milk-Eyed Mender and 2006’s Ys—required these virtues in increasing numbers. But Have One On Me, her new Victorian triple-decker of an album, is asking for a [...]