He looks like an Allman brother, sings like Beck and suffers the dating travails of George Costanza. But on his sprawling double-CD debut, Benji Hughes is unmistakably — and always hilariously — his own man. The North Carolina-and-Tennessee-reared artist specializes in laugh-out-loud vignettes about hipster culture, with catchy, eccentrically arranged songs that straddle folk, lounge, electro, synth rock and a half-dozen other styles. There are tales of concertgoing and shrooming ("I Went With Some Friends to See the Flaming Lips") and starry-eyed odes to unattainable hotties ("Tight Tee Shirt"). Hughes sings in the drowsy voice of a slacker, but he has a poet's ear for telling details, and his mountain-man beard hides a wry smile. When Hughes' drolleries and hopeless romanticism combine, the effect can be sublime. In the stately "All You've Got to Do Is Fall in Love," he croons, "Wouldn't it be sweet if you could be in love with me/The way that I'm in love with you?/It's so easy to do/All you've got to do is fall in love with me." Hughes' logic — like his tunes and his wit — is unimpeachable.
(Posted: Sep 18, 2008)
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- I Am You, You Are Me, We Are One
- Tight Tee Shirt
- You Stood Me Up
- Neighbor Down The Hall
- Waiting For An Invitation
- Cornfields
- Why Do These Parties Always End The Same Way?
- Where Do Old Lovers Go?
- Do You Think They Would Tell You?
- All You've Got To Do Is Fall In Love
- Mmmmmmm
- Even If
- Girl In The Tower
- Vibe So Hot
- So Well
- The Mummy
- Love Is A Razor
- I Went With Some Friends To See The Flaming Lips
- Coyotes
- Ladies On Parade
- Jubalee
- So Much Better
- Love On A Budget
- Lyegue
- Baby, It's Your Life
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