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"...If all this sounds as exciting as promised, grab onto something - cause yonder lies November! Two of the bright stars of the class of 2004 are back with long-promised-and-awaited albums - White Magic and Joanna Newsom! Joanna's album was the subject of rumor over the course of the last year, and we can now confirm the rumor: arrangements for the record were scored by Van Dyke Parks, who conducted the orchestra out in LA this spring. Joanna calls the record Ys and we call it awesome! We'll have lots more on this as we go along..." (Source is the Drag City news page.)