You Make the Call

I'm listening to the Minus Five's new Killingsworth and face the same three questions I face when dealing with A.C. Newman, Robyn Hitchcock and Robert Pollard:
1. Are the lyrics evocative or a dodge or both?
2. Does it matter?
3. Why are people so good at every other phase of pop music-making forcing me to ask these questions?

An Underrated Skill

I'm listening a lot to A.C. Newman's Get Guilty, and I fear one day he'll drift for me into the same place that Robyn Hitchcock and Robert Pollard occupy in my thinking - guys whose lyrics I once found evocative but now find evasive. But he sure knows how to decide what song starts an album. I get caught up in his projects right away.