“Phil Elvrum is the veritable Walt Whitman of music: He's hermetic, possibly celibate, and immutably happy. His songs celebrate the sensual matter of life, and rarely fall back upon narrative clichés like simple depression or heartbreak in the conventional sense. Like Whitman's poetry, Elvrum's lyrics are often as elementary as a child's jejune rambling, and yet, in their simplicity, they're sturdy”
