It’s been 20 years since Bill Callahan, then working under the name of Smog, dropped his seventh album, Knock Knock, on Drag City.
While Callahan had already been recording for a decade, this is the album where his now highly revered songwriting fully came into its own. He hasn’t released a bad album since.
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Ryan is a writer, editor and vinyl collector currently based in Los Angeles. He started Mini Music Critic in 2017.