Monkey and Bear - Joanna Newsom (Cover) || Towse 

Ys is such absolute perfection. always makes me wish i could sing like Joanna, even just a little. pretty epic of you to cover a beast of a song like this. i love it.

wow, your version gave me goosebumps!

amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaziiiiiiiiing! fave song of her! and very very difficult to play, memorize etc etc..outstanding cover

Given that Ys IS perfection, but that M&B is perhaps the least perfect song on the album, I didn't expect to enjoy this complicated cover half as much as I did. Well done! I could imagine Regina Spektor covering it in a somewhat similar style. Please do keep bringing us your innovative Joanna interpretations.

Fucking lovely as alwayyyys

For someone who has quite a similar vocal register to JN it must be hard to 'cover' her music without just 'copying' it and I thought that despite the vocal similarity there was quite a lot of you in there. I could hear how much you love the song in the little inflections and pauses and rhythmical tweaks that are unique to you. I loved it.

This is an amazing cover, well done 💗 I adore this song, it seems to be somewhat underrated among JN fans but it's one of my favs

this is INCREDIBLE, your voice is such a perfect fit for this song, i'm in awe

I LOVED your cover. Monkey & Bear is on my top 3 favorite Joanna songs. You put your own personality in this rendition as well, making it fresh. I took a look at the chord chart but I was wondering how you transposed them to the piano. Did you write a piano sheet for it? If you did, would you consider selling it for download? I play piano and would love to take a look at it (and maybe try by myself as 2-year project hahaha)

awesome

I wish I could say something nice, but I AM SHOOK. You are amazing.

You did an amazing job!! I'm super excited for you to cover the rest of the album!

Fantastic 👍🏻

This is not me regularly checking your channel to see when your next Ys cover will come out 👀

your voice is so true to this song but also adds so much!!!

All of Y's? I'm here for it.

As a biggest fan of Joanna Newsom I approved! Great performance and great interpretation. Thank You for sharing!

wow covering any JN song is a tall task, very good job!!

omgggg Grace!! the storytelling is right on XD

Gorgeous cover! I love how you performed some of Joanna's articulation from the studio recording in parts but also added your own. 13/10

omg such an amazing cover of my favorite song. incredible stuff!!

YASSS QUEEN

GORGEOUS! One of my fave songs of hers. And I love your voice, as always

I just realized even though I was excited for this cover and I've watched it for the third time I never commented to tell you how much I enjoyed it. 😔 I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for this gift

This is an interesting one, the melody is a bit repetitive so it's a nice challenge to switch things up with the piano to make it fresh. I really like what you did here! The crescendo and accelerando in the section talking about the bear in the water.... soooooo nice, it felt like the story was in a rush to be told, in a desperate but exquisite way! Moments of intensity like 8:05 and 9:06 were awesome! Personally I wasn't a big fan of the slower section, as it sounded a bit too fragile to me. But this is an amazing cover and an amazing arrangement! I really admire you as an artist and I'll try to motivate myself to learn a lot of songs like you do ^.^ In fact, for curiosity's sake, do you still plan to cover all of Ys? :o

Amazing cover as always!! Your voice is so perfect 😭

ah beautiful cover!

Nailed this!!!!

Love it! Could you maybe film your hands while playing the song on the piano? I'd love to learn how to play it!

I listen to this one often. Do you think that the whole section about the bear having to dance for the Man could be a commentary on themselves as entertainers having to cater to the industry, at least a bit?

So, did the bear die in the end?