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You’re hearing every piece of a self-made artist and his multi-faceted skill set - from the soulful, smoky vocal overlay to a singular, meticulous guitar sound, but best of all, you’re hearing the ingenuity that is Dan Reeder. When you listen to Nobody wants to be you, you’re hearing more than an album. The bluntness of the lyrics are softened by Reeder’s crooning yet, even with multi-layered harmonies, his voice maintains its iconic “wisp.” While the album varies from the folk groundwork laid in the past, Reeder’s musical intelligence is as present as ever. On the other hand, the opening and title track, “Nobody wants to be you” is much more soothing.

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Compared to its predecessors, his latest work delivers a brighter, more energized tone, full of what Reeder calls “easy piano.” This can arguably be heard on the first single, “Kung fu is my fighting style”, a rock-n-roll, piano-driven ballad with a uniquely-distorted electric guitar solo, which also happens to be the only guitar on the entire album. While “Nobody Wants to Be You” is the precursor to a full-length (set for a 2018 release), the EP isn’t lacking in tenacity and holds true to his distinct style: slightly quirky, painstakingly honest, and undeniably witty. The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman coined him as “one of the foremost outsider artists in modern folk” and he was featured on the Emmy award-winning show Weeds (“Work Song”). The albums garnered glowing reviews publications like No Depression deemed him “brilliant,” and NPR’s Fresh Air compared Reeder to Prine himself. Prine listened, signed Reeder to his label, toured with him four times, and released all three of Reeder’s previous records: “Dan Reeder” (2004), “Sweetheart” (2005) and “This New Century” (2009). “Nobody Wants to Be You.” marks Reeder’s fourth release on Oh Boy Records, a relationship formed after Reeder sent a burned CD to John Prine in the early 2000’s. Please downvote if incorrect! Self-deletes if score is 0.Last week on November 10th, Oh Boy Records released Dan Reeder’s newest project, “ Nobody Wants to Be You.” The five-song EP is distributed by Thirty Tigers and was produced by Reeder himself. Last.fm: 15,736 listeners, 273,791 plays tags: folk, acoustic, blues, pop, rock In a world where most pop culture is about finding out what the maximum number of people desire and then manufacturing something that will max-out that desire till you puke, Reeder’s quiet, sharp-witted, literally home-made music reminds you why some people create: to satisfy themselves, and then, if possible, make some money in the bargain. There’s a certain stubbornness here, and I’m not just talking about the 37 years Dan says it’s taking for his cappuccino to arrive in Sweetheart’s lead-off cut, “I’m Waiting For My Cappuccino.” Reeder has the stubbornness-the creative persistence-of an artist: You get the definite feeling he’ll do or make whatever he wants and the hell if anyone else likes or wants it.

But most of the time, Sweetheart is about the sound of Dan Reeder’s cracked, dry, confiding voice and the pleasant noises he gets out his homemade guitars, his multi-tracked harmonies with himself and his occasional puff on a harmonica. Certain themes recur on Sweetheart: Dan likes to be alone (“I Don’t Really Want To Talk To You” “Just Leave Me Alone Today”) Dan likes to think about, and have, sex (“Pussy Titty” “Pussy Heaven”-for the son of a minister, he’s got quite a mouth on him). It isn’t so much a sequel to his wonderful out-of-nowhere, out-of-time 2003 debut, Dan Reeder, as it is an extension of-a more freewheeling elaboration on-his first musical offering.

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Dan Reeder’s new second album Sweetheart consists of 15 original songs, plus a cover of Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” that sounds like the demo version Gary Brooker probably dreamed of singing 39 years ago before all that baroque production-work got in the way.