While I
feel like I might say this a lot, it turns out in reality I really don’t say it
enough. Probably 99.9% of people out
there who think, “Hey, I can pick up an acoustic guitar, make some songs and it’ll
be good” are delusional. That rare, iota of people who actually do have
the sound that has been made famous by many great predecessors is not quite
given enough praise, so today I shall give praise to Benjamin Poole.
More
often than not, I write things off for sounding too much like Bob Dylan or my
favorite EFS, but somehow on “Home Language”, Poole manages to bring out the
qualities of both of the shall we say forefathers and do so without making me
want to stab him in the face. I stopped
listening to music that looked like a bad cover band a long time ago, but if
having to listen to a million Elliiot Smith wanna be’s to get to this Benjamin
Poole tape was my mission then mission well spent.
Aside
from the cliché names, Benjamin Poole also brings out The Lyndsay Diaries and
Dashboard Confessional on these songs, which is kind of funny because neither
of those are really current anymore and as far as I know neither are releasing
new music. It’s just somewhat funny to
me to think that at one time I was comparing other musicians with Dashboard
Confessional while he was still playing music, yet now he’s more of a name of
the past. (Please ignore his new
Dashboard & Sons band)
There
are some backing vocals and even a banjo, sure, but these five songs keep it to
the point but also convey a big enough of a punch that they will make you want
to listen to them on repeat. I just don’t
feel like I can stress enough how band artists try to do what Benjamin Poole is
doing only they end up falling flat on their face whilst Poole remains a
diamond in the rough.
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