Divers Turns 10

“Love is not a symptom of time/ Time is just a symptom of love.” This is the line that people seized upon when Joanna Newsom released Divers 10 years ago today. It’s a beautiful koan, one that breaks my brain when I attempt to mine out its implications. And given that Newsom has yet to follow this album up a full decade later, that lyric has perhaps taken on new resonance.