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BEN KWELLER - Ben Kweller
| Dotmusic | | He may look like he still has to get his older brother to buy his cigarettes for him, but there's a whole lotta man inside Texan troubadour Ben Kweller. Long admired, in a somewhat avuncular fashion, by the likes of Evan Dando, Jeff Tweedy and Dave Matthews (who first signed Kweller to his indie label ATO) for his anti-folkish indie pop - see 2002's charming, rickety, stuck-together-with-sellotape "Sha Sha" - Kweller's well-deserved graduation to big school seems assured by this confident and polished fourth album....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | Life does funny things to people. One-time Radish frontman Ben Kweller was once best known for the kooky grunge-pop of Sha Sha, his debut album proper, before swapping it for the all-out rock stylings of second album On My Way. Perhaps it’s down to his recent foray into the world of fatherhood, or maybe just a natural songwriting progression, but with his third, eponymously-titled effort, Kweller cuts a much more mature figure....full text |
| | RollingStone | | After fronting the short-lived teenage grunge band Radish, Ben Kweller proved a songwriter to watch with 2002's Sha Sha and 2004's lesser On My Way, both of which offered solid alt-rock and power pop. On Ben Kweller -- a slightly less edgy record stuck between its two predecessors quality-wise -- the twenty-five-year-old touches on Sixties pop and Seventies AM fare on songs that sound both well-crafted and unfussy, if a little lightweight....full text |
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