The Milk-Eyed Mender Turns 10

This is such a lovely album. Stereogum’s written up something beautiful on its 10th birthday, about “the divine fire Newsom was playing with on the album,” and how, “like most great records, The Milk-Eyed Mender seemingly exists impervious to outside influences, finding its own insulated corner of the world.” Joanna Newsom’s voice is “eight and eighty, dawn and dusk,” and this song will always be really perfect to me (This is an old song/These are old blues/And this is not my tune/But it’s mine to use), tied with “Good Intentions Paving Company” as her best.