Band: Benjamin Gibbard
Album: Former Lives
Best song: “Bigger Than Love” is very good.
Worst song: “Oh Woe” misses the mark quite a bit.

I used to have a theory that creativity was like a pool of liquid. It was something I came up with when I was in high school, largely based on late-career Bob Dylan. The best artists have a bigger pool, of course, but that pool runs out. Dylan’s earliest work, I was thinking at the time, was his best. Continue reading →