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The ambitious, intricately lovely Ys arrived in late 2006. The album became one of the year's most critically acclaimed releases, and Newsom spent the rest of that year and early 2007 touring in support of it. That spring, she returned with the wittily named EP Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band and continued to tour, all the while collecting material for a new studio project. That project ultimately arrived in the form of a triple-disc album, Have One on Me, in early 2010. While gathering ideas for her fourth album, Newsom worked on a wide range of other projects and events: she contributed vocals to the theme song for the Muppets film as well as albums by Thao & the Get Down Stay Down and Hard Skin; appeared in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2014 film Inherent Vice and the television show Portlandia; and played select dates -- including a 2012 benefit show for the Henry Miller Memorial Library that also featured Philip Glass and Tim Fain -- where she debuted new songs. Her fourth album, Divers, which included contributions from Steve Albini, Nico Muhly, and Dave Longstreth, arrived in October 2015 and was preceded by the single "Sapokanikan," the video for which was directed by Anderson. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi
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