People don’t often hear about an artist reinventing their sound 20 albums into a celebrated career. But Todd Snider’s latest release, 2021's First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder, isn’t so much a sudden change in direction as an arrival after years of searching. A storyteller who works a similar creative soil to John Prine and Shel Silverstein, Snider’s best songs are both sad and funny, political and entertaining, and always written with a poet’s eye and a stand-up comedian’s sensibility about the follies of human condition.
People don’t often hear about an artist reinventing their sound 20 albums into a celebrated career. But Todd Snider’s latest release, 2021's First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder, isn’t so much a sudden change in direction as an arrival after years of searching. A storyteller who works a similar creative soil to John Prine and Shel Silverstein, Snider’s best songs are both sad and funny, political and entertaining, and always written with a poet’s eye and a stand-up comedian’s sensibility about the follies of human condition.
People don’t often hear about an artist reinventing their sound 20 albums into a celebrated career. But Todd Snider’s latest release, 2021's First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder, isn’t so much a sudden change in direction as an arrival after years of searching. A storyteller who works a similar creative soil to John Prine and Shel Silverstein, Snider’s best songs are both sad and funny, political and entertaining, and always written with a poet’s eye and a stand-up comedian’s sensibility about the follies of human condition.