Any more like this or Benji? Really love the country/folk influenced

jackson c. frank

>Benji
I find it absolutely grotesque - yes, grotesque, and unlike most of the reactions to this record, that is not an exaggeration - that all sorts of dudes (they're all dudes) (many of whom I carry high respect for) have stumped for this hopelessly generic 62-minute navel-picking while paying no attention whatsoever to non-Pitchfork-approved country singer-songwriters like, say, Todd Snider, who's been doing this same kind of stuff just as long as Kozelek and can actually write, sing, and think deeply about his subjects instead of just moping a snoozy aging frat-boy voice and drawing out in crayon how you're supposed to feel. (Same goes for John Darnielle. Anyone here heard the latest Drive-By Truckers album, by the way? Didn't think so.)
Every generation gets some self-pitying guitar picker who can't sing or write and gets imbued with significance because being sad is easier than being happy. Some generations get more than one. Sometimes we get whole bands like that. Kozelek, whose eternally bored voice actually makes me yearn for Elliott fucking Smith, has been mining this same territory - while each time somehow managing not to bring anything new to the table - for well over two decades now. Isn't it time we stopped falling for this shit? Cut the umbilical cord already? Like, is this a language? What does it inspire? Christ, if Mark Kozelek or Kurt fucking Vile is this young century's answer to 'quality singer-songwriter,' I say we save time and just have the funeral now. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves; you're slowing things down and you're part of the problem. Boys are dying on these streets. Fuck off.

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>>74363625
how about some gillian welch

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>>74363946
will check these out, thanks guys
>>74363695
wut

>>74363695
all you rednecks shut the fuck up

>>74364216
>tfw I unironically enjoy war on drugs suck my cock as well as the war on drugs as a band

>>74363625
pray for newtown from benji gives me the feels. good album too chill af.