Todd Rundgren

Six years displaced in time, here is the followup to Something/Anything? Todd Rundgren's
unalloyed pop craft motivates every moment of Hermit of Mink Hollow. While there are
some concessions to modernity -- the synthesizers that thicken a few Phil Spector-like
productions, a lavish use of the shivery suspended chords Rundgren's always loved (but
that Steely Dan made commercial) -- Hermit of Mink Hollow's dozen songs all ste... More >

Only a weight as willfully light as Todd can be trusted to put his smartest song ("Onomatopeia") on "the easy side" and his dumbest ("Bag Lady") on "the difficult side." (Grade: C+)