The short answer is that it sounded like it was recorded in a phone booth. I glanced at the album artwork and Neil Young did, in fact, appear to be standing in a phone booth. Some quick research showed that Neil Young actually recorded an album in what is effectively a phone booth at Jack White’s studio in Nashville.

This made me remember that Jack White is objectively the worst thing to happen to rock & roll ever. He’s both an avatar and a catalyst of everything wrong with the kitschy, ironic, self-aware and self-referential rock & roll bands that have cropped up since the turn of the century.

My wife owns a clothing store in our town. She opened it in large part so she could wear and listen to whatever she wants to without having to ask permission.

She played this exact album in her store and had to leave it on steady rotation for about 4 weeks because the stream of people walking in and asking what it was and absolutely loving it was fucking endless. From young girls to women in their 60's.

Easily one of, if not the most appreciated albums that people hadn't heard before.

I think this author is actually more concerned about style and pretense than the person he's defining himself in opposition to.