Joanna Newsom certainly knows how to create a buzz.

Love her or hate her (and I’m totally with the former) she is impossible to ignore. Like Marmite, it’s impossible to remain neutral on the issue.

Her last album, the magnificent Ys from 2006, drew massive attention through its originality, complexity and duration.

‘Folk’ artists just don’t make records like this and now, as if to up the ante, she has just gone and released a triple album – ‘Have One On Me’ – whose 18 songs have a total playing time of an immense 2 hours and 4 minutes.

Ms Newsom once again acts in accordance with Oscar Wilde’s famous aphorism that : “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess” .

Snap judgements as to whether it is up the same high standard set by Ys should be treated with a pinch of salt not because they can’t be true, but simply because it is impossible to digest such a vast collection of songs immediately; hers are records to live with and dip into rather than consume whole.

On first listening I picked the tracks Esme and California  for their sheer gorgeousness but I fully expect these favourites to change with each listening.

Amazingly, Joanna Newsom is still only 28 and heaven knows where she’ll go for here. Even if she never makes another record, she’s already produced a rich body of work to last for years to come.