Divers

Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "A concept album about history, memory, movement, loss and love, the emotional tone here -- a wry, wistful melancholy -- is pretty straightforward, a function of Newsom's tightened focus." Spin - "DIVERS sets itself apart by expanding into new genres and replacing the whimsy of her earlier material with maturity and solemnity." Entertainment Weekly - "[N]o album this year offered as many new surprises with every subsequent listen." NME (Magazine) - "[A]nother masterpiece....You'll disappear down its lyrical rabbit holes for hours." Paste (magazine) - "The songs here remain unremittingly complex in their arrangements, but every element of those arrangements both possesses its own beauty and perfectly contributes to the overall aesthetic and atmosphere of any given track." Clash (Magazine) - "'Anecdotes' is an incredible opening to an infectious album, unmistakably Newsom -- the sound that no one else comes close to, like Tchaikovsky meets Genesis meets Kate Bush."

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