Music Review: 'Since'

The backwoods poet from San Francisco comes out blazing, but his abstract love letters ache as hard and wild here as those on 1996’s more somber Devotion + Doubt. The fire is stoked by Dave Schramm’s squalling guitar, John McEntire’s studious drumming — and Buckner’s voice, still keening and careening like George Jones gone haywire. A stunner and further proof that the future of rock may be country. A