i enjoy this album very much

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.

i always thought "enjoy" was the wrong word for albums like that. bleak, despondent and more centered towards stories than musical aspects you can really "sink your teeth into". i think the album is great
>>74427018
haha damn, who wrote that?

>>74427018
settle down, alright?

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>>74426955
me 2

>>74426955
>truck driver
10/10

>>74427107
REDNECK THAT HE WAS

>>74427018
I hope this is pasta

>>74427085
>mark
>jim.png
wat

>>74427756
That's early Mark, back in his red house painters days probablu

Jim Wise is my favourite on that album, but it's a 10/10 album so it's all good.