The Halfwit in MeRyley Walker · 2016

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“For a certain kind of listener, Ryley Walker’s “The Halfwit in Me” will be love at first sight. Over its sprawling, sunbaked six minutes, we hear the lush, baroque production style of Jim O’Rourke; the hushed, freewheeling energy of Yo La Tengo; and a psychedelic, fingerpicked coda straight out of Sun Kil Moon's “Duk Koo Kim.” Which is to say, “Halfwit” *sounds *great. It could go on for another 1”