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His albums are not too consistent.
There are beautiful beautiful songs on 1990, together with stuff that doesn't do it for me.
I like Artistic Vice; and Rejected Unknown even more (Favorite Darling Girl could be my favourite DJ song).
He has a peculiar voice; I find it hard to watch him on youtube, live.
On Rejected... there's this song Billions/Rock, where he plans to become a massive rock star... But there's that voice that doesn't match the lyrics, and it is so odd I can't help wondering whether he had a precise idea of the impact on the listener - you could easily laugh at him, but he seems so self-assured on that one, you don't know which way to go. That is something.
His earlier stuff is too lo-fi to my ears, and Fear Yourself left me cold.
Discovered Covered was a good pick, with fine versions of his songs by M. Ward, Tom Waits and more...
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