“Since ditching the Smog name, moving to Texas and becoming a father, singer-songwriter and former misanthrope Bill Callahan has leaned into his new metier as a ray of sunshine, turning a spotlight on his surroundings and in return being illuminated by them. His latest album dwells on dreams (“thoughts in lotus”), death (“the gurney wheel screamed down the hall”) and the human condition (“do what y”
“Reality is a gratifying return to Bill Callahan's off-kilter style”
“On his third solo album in as many years, the wise and stoic singer-writer extolls the virtues of the sacred and the mundane.”
