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Bill Callahan (born 1966), also known as Smog and (Smog), is an American singer-songwriter born in Silver Spring, Maryland. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today.
Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, using substandard instruments and recording equipment. Read more on Last.fm
Probably Callahan’s best album since at least “The Doctor Came at Dawn.” The album is certainly a lot slicker produced than anything he’d done up to this point, but it was also darker and less immediately accessible than anything since his early Smog days. The career high point “Bathysphere” is recalled a bit by the plodding rhythm of the album’s best track, “Eid Ma Clack Shaw,” and Callahan aims for and nails absolute beauty on “Rococo Zephyr” and Gira-like catharsis on “All Thoughts Are Prey to Some Beast.”
For many who abandoned Callahan as he cleaned up his Smog act this is a brilliant re-entry point, re-affirming him as one of the most unique and gifted voices in the indie singer/songwriter game.