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It takes a lot for me to write about the shortcomings up Pitchfork, as it is common knowledge they have their issues but with today’s review of Bright Eyes, Four Winds I have no choice but to go on the attack. I like Bright Eyes, I am not a fan of this EP but don't want to do it any disrespect, however this is exactly what Stephen M. Deusner did in his review.

For those of you who don't know, Neil Young is my musical hero. Few come close to him and it takes a man with more than two balls to compare this legend to Connor Oberst's EP full of half hearted tracks that didn't make the full length. Duesner, whose name could be mistaken for douche bag said, "On the Four Winds EP he sets aside the angst-rock of Lifted, Desaparecidos, and the beatscapes of Digital Ash in a Digital Urn in favor of Neil Young-at-heart folk-rock that sounds like his idea of populism."

Ok so this isn't the end of the world. Its definitely a comparison I wouldn't make since Four Winds just sounds like Connor's been hanging around M. Ward too long but I digress. Deusner could have left it at that but somewhere between that paragraph and the next he grew a giant third ball and wrote, "Reinvent the Wheel" is Oberst's "Needle and the Damage Done," but without a needle, or really any damage."

If it’s not the “Needle and the Damage Done” then why did you even need to bring Neil into it in the first place? This guy is running out of his Pitchfork metaphors and is now scraping around and decided to pick on the hero of folk rock. Connor is not Young, this EP is a mess and instead of trying to be profound with his pathetic comparisons, he could have just said that.