Changing Horses
As the title suggests, here Ben Kweller jumps from making polite, mannered 1960s-influenced indie-pop to polite, mannered 1970s influenced alt-country.
Changing Horses is serious about its title: Pop songsmith Ben Kweller has gone country, and it's the best fit he's found. "Gypsy Rose" kicks off Kweller's fourth album with a slide guitar, and—the string-based "Ballad Of Wendy Baker" aside—the disc sticks to that sound. Kweller isn't trying to be Waylon Jennings,…
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Ben Kweller has recorded a country album, the supposed product of a Texan childhood spent listening to Garth Brooks.
Ben Kweller’s always been an artist I’ve found to be disappointing. Disappointing in the sense that, on each record, is a handful of very good pop songs, surrounded by dull, impersonal and forgetful nothingness. In short, his greatest flaw as an artist is his consumate blandness. And so it is a welcome turn, this thorough
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses review: For an experiment in form, Changing Horses is an undeniable success.