The Chicago Reader, who told the tale of Willis Earl Beal's itinerant lifestyle and karaoke machine recordings last year, is streaming his lovely and world-weary album, Acousmatic Sorcery in full. "Monotony," a single-strummed guitar ballad on which Beal sounds like the only guy in the world, is especially lovely. Acousmatic Sorcery is out next week on Jamie-James Medina's XL imprint, Hot Charity.
