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Monsters of Folk – Self-Titled [Album Review]

Sep 14, 2009, 9:55am HearYa: An Indie Music Blog
Monsters of Folk – Self-Titled [Album Review] For all the hype surrounding indie supergroup Monsters of Folk (Yim Yames, M. Ward, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis), their new self-titled album does more than deliver. It exceeds my expectations and that says a lot considering how much I love Ward and Yames and that I've been anticipating this album for well over a year. What Monsters of Folk are doing to the indie music scene reminds me of what LeBron James and Kobe Bryant did to high school basketball – they're just operating on a completely different level. While everyone else was slapping [...]
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