9. Only Skin, Part 1

A Hopeless Endeavor: A Joanna Newsom Podcast

We’ve done it. We have attempted to tackle the enormity of Only Skin. It took us a long time, but come on, it *should* take a long time to talk about this modern, masterpiece of an epic. I don’t even know how to write this preamble. It’s all just too good. Thank you so much to Alexis and Av for their supportive and insightful contributions. Thank you as well to Rachel Hottle for her incredible (over our heads with its brilliance) essay, “Unconventional Formal Structures and Function in the music of Joanna Newsom”. Thank you, as ALWAYS, to Melissa Marturano and Rachel Parent for the complete genius (and blood, and sweat, and tears) that is Blessing All the Birds. Thank you so much to David Pizarro, aka Peez for his Cosmia beat, which is called “Framed Your Eyes”. David also does all sorts of producing/mastering sorcery on our audio that we would be lost without, so thank you so much, David. And thank you all for listening. Buckle in, because our Only Skin journey is about to get wild. “My sleeping heart woke, and my waking heart spoke.”