I'm a big fan of anything that comes outta Silver Spring, Maryland and my first thought was, isn't this just Smog? Bill Callahan is the voice of Cold Blooded Old Times, that song that inevitably follows the music I play on a regular basis. Bill Callahan, aka Smog, the one man band or the 'indie pioneer of lo-fi music' per Wikipedia. If Smog is a one man band and that one man band is Bill Callahan, then what's the difference between Smog and Bill Callahan? It turns out a lot. Smog music is pretty boring, and I mean that in the best way possible, it's simple, and very apparent that it's produced by one person. Bill Callahan, is not. There are complexities, intricacies, builds and fades, waxing and waning, multi-multi instrumentation, etc. Still pretty boring, but more boring, and I mean that in the most negative way possible. The appeal of smog is that it's a pig, a fat round beautiful pink pig imperfect in every way, stinky, muddy, hairy and immovable. And then there's Bill Callahan, the evolution of Smog, who is still the pig, just in a cage, on antibiotics.