Joanna Newsom

Young girl sings in strange screech-voice, wears renaissance outfits and plays harp. Not sounding like the latest hipster phenomenon? Well, it's precisely this inability to predict the next trend that makes the wearers of skinny jeans so effortlessly cool, and me (and you) left gasping in their uber-nonchalant wake. For reasons entirely too complex to be grasped by my behind-the-curve brain, it has been decided that Joanna Newsom is "in". While I quite enjoy the featured song, I'm having real difficulty getting on-board a whole album of 12-minute harp/vocal tracks. But seeing as how Erasure have featured in my recent posts, my opinion probably don't count for shit.