Hell yeah

Newsom expertly weaves imagery like brocade, bringing anecdote, metaphor, allegory, and literary allusion into her beautiful harp music, couching all her charming storytelling in a most excellent, educated diction that cannot help but delight the enlightened listener as she renders the mundane magical.

I totally agree. Unless you have an alcohol allergy or have some other medical reason why you don’t drink, I will never trust you and will consider you a bad person if I offer you a drink and you refuse. There’s something seriously wrong with a person’s soul if he doesn’t drink.

At nine tracks, this is a rather long EP, but three of the tracks are covers brilliantly done: "This Must Be the Place" by Talking Heads, "A Sunday Smile" by Beirut, and "Twilight" by Electric Light Orchestra (and Mr. Ishibashi shows sense to include “Prologue”). The other six tracks are pure Kishi Bashi in all their beauty, creativity, and, surprisingly, sadness. This EP swings from the dark humor of "Unicorns Die When You Leave" (spoiler: he murders the unicorn) and the death-bed regret of "Conversations at the End of the World", wherein Kishi Bashi uses a breathing machine as part of the musical fabric of the track.

straight edge straight to hell

...is that approval?

Indeed.