January 18, 2012
I think some musicians are album artists, some are singles artists, and some are rare birds—like Pollard—who use the recording studio as a journal, in which they dash off their fleeting thoughts, rarely going back to revise or refine. Trying to gauge the quality of that kind of output in terms of its totality is the wrong approach. It may not be conventional—or desirable—but Pollard is asking us to do the culling that most recording artists handle themselves.