M. Ward III
^I went ahead and tried to listen to the album he released this year, "A Wasteland Companion". Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get all the way through it as I was with his other albums. It didn't sound like the style I came to like with his older albums, it sounded over produced and the mellow acoustic style was gone. I'm willing to give it another shot in a couple days because it may be a grower, it just didn't appeal to me as much as I thought it would.
Don't let me brief review discourage you from listening to his recent release, i'm sure it'll appeal to me in a few days once i've had time to let his other albums sink in.