Can music be beautiful if, instead of emotion, it offers the listener emptiness? At first glance, The Moth sounds like slowcore, but it does not quite behave according to the genre’s rules.

The Deadmans’ debut feels to me less like a finished statement than an attempt charged with considerable, still not fully realised potential.

Taken as a whole, My Days of 58 is a truly fine Callahan album, and I would not hesitate to call it one of the best of his career.