New Brendan Benson Video - "A Whole Lot Better" (Stereogum Premiere)

The last time "A Whole Better" streamed in a video embed, Brendan Benson was performing it at the Ed Sullivan Theatre for Mr. Letterman. This time the My Old, Familiar Friend earworm gets a proper video that taps just about every visual technique of the '70s -- from kaleidoscopes to split screens, negative creeps to color-saturated ghosts -- in service of Benson's sweetly melodic, riff-centered power-pop that's heavily indebted to that same decade. Both he and the lady that makes him feel a whol...

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