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Since Dorian Died
Two years after the death of his son, Ben Kweller doesn’t want to waste any more time.
We are standing in the center of Carroll Park, surrounded by screaming and running kids, the day after his April 19 Bowery Ballroom show, the fourth stop on a tour in support of his first new record in four years, Cover the Mirrors. His song “How I Am,” which Kweller performed at South by Southwest right after Dorian died, has touches of his father’s style: It is rooted in power pop, with singsong melodies and cleanly mapped verse-chorus-verse dynamics. But there is something wry and resigned lurking behind those chord changes, an insouciance to Dorian’s vocals, that suggests something deeper and bigger brewing — the sound of a fairly labyrinthine songwriting mind just starting to awaken to its potential.
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