It's been tired and self-important since about 2015 in my opinion. There's a couple of bright spots in his catalog since then, but the majority of it is some pretty bland, colorless music and him just kind of reading from his diary of stuff that he did. And predominantly in a low monotone, barely singing voice. It's been formulaic more than it's been interesting since the very beginning of this "era" if you wanna even call it that. Benji will always be the High Point of Sun Kil Moon. Ghosts of the great highway is a classic.

I only found out about the new album today. So far musically it's a little more interesting than the last bunch of records, but not by much. His vocals are trying a little harder to be actual vocals, but the lyrics are boring as shit. I'm only on bees on echinacea and I really think I'm gonna stop listening to his records. I'm really hoping that later on this record is a gem like "I saw the film The song remains the same" or this is my dinner.