Joanna Newsom’s third full-length LP, <i>Have One On Me</i>, is available today. You can <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123981491&ft=1&f=9… the entire thing</a> from NPR, if you’re interested. Today, after work, I will go out into the light rain and hunt down this album. The arrangements are as intricate as ever, but Newsom’s voice has never been so seductive, alluring, inviting. So far, I especially like the kindness and yearning of “No Provenance,” but the entire thing&#151three LPs, 18 tracks, and two hours long&#151is bewitching and rewarding.

In the beginning, I had a room adjacent to my office&#151;a room filled with bicycles, hi-fi gear, and assorted crap I'd never gotten around unpacking since our last move. Feeling ambitious, I thought I might turn it into a guest room, and emptied it.

In the beginning, I had a room adjacent to my office&#151;a room filled with bicycles, hi-fi gear, and assorted crap I'd never gotten around unpacking since our last move. Feeling ambitious, I thought I might turn it into a guest room, and emptied it.

In the beginning, I had a room adjacent to my office&#151;a room filled with bicycles, hi-fi gear, and assorted crap I'd never gotten around unpacking since our last move. Feeling ambitious, I thought I might turn it into a guest room, and emptied it.

In the beginning, I had a room adjacent to my office&#151;a room filled with bicycles, hi-fi gear, and assorted crap I'd never gotten around unpacking since our last move. Feeling ambitious, I thought I might turn it into a guest room, and emptied it.

Revolver? More like <I>evolver</I>: 80 years after the first electrically driven record players became available, professional and amateur engineers continue to seek new ways to spin LPs with ever-greater steadiness and precision.

Revolver? More like <I>evolver</I>: 80 years after the first electrically driven record players became available, professional and amateur engineers continue to seek new ways to spin LPs with ever-greater steadiness and precision.

Revolver? More like <I>evolver</I>: 80 years after the first electrically driven record players became available, professional and amateur engineers continue to seek new ways to spin LPs with ever-greater steadiness and precision.

Revolver? More like <I>evolver</I>: 80 years after the first electrically driven record players became available, professional and amateur engineers continue to seek new ways to spin LPs with ever-greater steadiness and precision.