Could somebody please explain to me how Joanna Newsom is better known than Alela Diane?

have only heard the first one on the last record, but her falsetto's beautiful, huh. she should go that a way.

this record sounds great!
can't quite pinpoint why it's getting me in a way that similar contemporary-lush-country-recs haven't, but it's really nice. i want to cook to it.

just going to bump this thread every time i listen to this record & am reminded of how good a fit its sweetness and boldness and canter are, when you're doing something. i saw her a few years ago and thought it was nice, but she's doing something different now, it's really bold and confident. & even though it it's going to get filed away under 'modern country' or new, traditional sounding music or whatever, it doesn't quite match up with any of those records, to me.

Hey, new Alela Diane record, apparently on the breakup of her marriage. Listening to a track on the BBC now, good stuff.

Unveiled today, alongside the news that Diane’s brand new album ‘Cusp’ will be released on February 9th via AllPoints (which can pre-ordered here) new single ‘Émigré’ sees the California-born Alela Diane respond to the ongoing, international refugee crisis by plunging us among the merciless seas: “I hear yelling I hear crying I her praying / As the ocean threatens us on all four sides / the water rises deeper every minute / this vessel cannot bear the burden of our love”. Diane has long been writing about love, loss, nature and memory, bittersweet subjects birthing their emotional debris through bluesy croons and comforting folk serenity. On ‘Émigré’, however, the personal feels more intimately political; the inhuman force of the sea stands for the propulsions of capital, nation and economic flow which propel so many people “across the borderlines”, torn from home to greater unknowns.

https://www.goldflakepaint.co.uk/alela-diane-emigre-new-album-premiere/

well, Alela Diane's new album is just lovely