he’s probably still the most important artist of my lifetime. the music didn’t sound bad at all. but it didn’t sound as life-giving as it has in the past. it didn’t sound like a world vision, no matter how many times he tried to sell it as one.
world vision, objectified
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I’ve felt exactly this way about every band I’ve ever described as life-changing. Years ago, I wrote a very similar essay about Wilco that took days to write and 25 pages to say the same thing. God, Caitlin White is good.