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After almost twenty years of utilizing the alias Smog for his music, Expenses Callahan turned to his given name for his releases after 2005’s A River Ain’t A great deal to Like. The 2007 EP Gemstone Dancer and full-length Woke on the Whaleheart both combined the personal, reflective, mainly acoustic …

An under-recognized pioneer from the lo-fi trend, Smog was fundamentally the alias of 1 Costs Callahan, an enigmatic singer/songwriter whose unusual, fractured music nicely epitomized the tenets and excesses from the home-recording increase. Melancholy, poignant, and self-obsessed, Callahan’s four-track result provided a peepshow watch into an insular globe of alienation …