For the past two years Conor Oberst has been one busy guy. With a solo album released last year and this album with The Mystic Valley Band, as well as releasing an album this year with some friends as Monsters of Folk, there has not been a lack of new material from this modern day Dylan, as he has been called. Of course, with Oberst's tenacity for songwriting, this is of no surprise.
For this album, Conor has received criticism for allowing the influence of other, supposedly sub par, songwriters to contribute to his repertoire. Admittedly, Conor himself has changed, but I don't believe we can expect any artist to continue to be the same today as he was yesterday. To do so would be to set such an artist on a path towards blandness. What we can do is appreciate the willingness for Conor to break outside of his own creativity and allow others into that circle.
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