When the Day Has Broken is packed with bitterness, loathing, and an oddly hook-laden anthemic quality that can’t help but appeal to the Pearl Jam generation.
In a completely nonchalant and morose way, Palace Music (pretty much completely Will Oldham) is a Neil Young Hawks and Doves-era meandering river of quietude.
The real thing. They live the lives that we so wish we could, all night honky-tonks from the Lower East Side to the backwards backwoods of the steaming South.
Stars on ESP is a wonderfully tedious and stupidly illuminating package of Sweet ‘n’ Low girlie vocals and surfing Beatles playing Fisher-Price equipment.