Like so many fellow musicians, US singer/songwriter and raconteur collaborator Brendan Benson has found himself composing new material in isolation at home. The result of this one-man, eight-track session is eight songs, which, however, do not follow any tonal lo-fi mortification, but rather make Benson’s classic songwriter style will appear more focused and less hip-hop jittery than before.
Self-reflectively, the 52-year-old devotes himself to interpersonal issues such as broken bridges or – ironically – the loneliness and emptiness that the life that has just been left idle as a traveling musician brings with it. But he doesn’t wrap profound themes in tonal melancholy, but combines sixties sensibility with power pop perfectionism and indie insignia from the rock garage. Even a trip to relaxed reggae rock realms in the form of the Gerry Rafferty cover “Right Down The Line” from the probably quintessential Benson coining year 1978 is added.
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