when an artist is compared to both robert pollard and lenny kravitz, it is seemingly senseless. however, i've just listened to the first 12 tracks of cody chesnuTT's the headphone masterpiece, and it makes perfect sense.

lo-fi and soulful, four of masterpiece's first ten songs check in at less than a minute, and most are as affecting as such pollard gems as "wondering boy poet" or "big chief chinese restaurant."

take, for example, the opener, "Magic in a Mortal Minute:"

magic makes the music more
and a mortal minute makes it more
waking up is naked
you to mine, fine
your body is a temple

it's mostly good because of the sparse keyboard behind the vocals, and the tossed-off nature of the thing. i think i'm gon' love this record.