When film director Paul Thomas Anderson persuaded Joanna Newsom to appear in his dreamy masterpiece Inherent Vice, most of us were pissed off. Not because she wasn’t perfect in the film (she was), but because it meant she had to put all musical projects on hold whilst it was being filmed.

However, Anderson has since made it up to us by directing this atmospheric, snow-filled video for Joanna Newsom’s liberating new comeback track “Sapokanikan”, which sees her skip, dance and sing around the streets of New York. It will be Anderson's first video since Fiona Apple's 2013 "Hot Knife", so it's a music video comeback for both of them.

If you don’t know what “Sapokanikan” means, it refers to the name of a tiny island that existed in the place of New York’s Greenwich Village long before Greenwich Village existed, back when it was inhabited by Dutch settlers. So there you have it – a music video and a history lesson all in one.

The idiosyncratic singer has also announced that her long-awaited follow-up to Have One on Me is titled Divers and will be in our lives and speakers as early as October 23rd. Hooray!

Watch the new video below and read our interview with Joanna Newsom here