{"id":804791,"date":"2020-03-02T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=960367"},"modified":"2020-03-02T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T16:25:11","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-tobin-sprout-the-man-i-used-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-tobin-sprout-the-man-i-used-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Tobin Sprout, \u2018The Man I Used to Know\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Tobin-Sprout-2020-3-e1583159263608.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/tobin-sprout\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tobin-sprout\" data-tag=\"tobin-sprout\">Tobin Sprout<\/a>\u2019s new song is kind of a downer \u2014 in the best possible way. From 1987 to 1997, when Sprout was a songwriter for Guided by Voices, his simple writing stood in contrast to frontman Robert Pollard\u2019s bombast. That same distinctive style is on full display on \u201cThe Man I Used to Know,\u201d his new solo single. While Pollard weaves larger than life tales of carnival barkers and otherworldly creatures, Sprout is decidedly terrestrial. His mournful, soft voice intones, \u201cThe man I used to know\/He\u2019s falling downward\/Calling on the world\/Goodbye\/Goodbye,\u201d against a background of shakers and guitars that just flirt with Dick Dale\u2019s surf rock style.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the song\u2019s solemnity, there\u2019s something comforting in its stark presentations, Sprout\u2019s unpretentious phrasing \u2014 it\u2019s easy to sink into that gentle sadness without drowning. In that way, the track is the perfect aural encapsulation of melancholy: in turns somnambulant, romantic and all-consuming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song is about sometimes losing faith and confidence in yourself,\u201d he tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cFeeling lost and not knowing where to turn sometimes. Or looking back at a younger you and realizing how much life has changed you. Falling down and finding your way to get back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/4z2ebTTKukc34eMDlqrnW4?si=mwZhc_Q_TeeZkOYCOwBiXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Spotify.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tobin-sprout-the-man-i-used-to-know-960367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobin Sprout\u2019s new song is kind of a downer \u2014 in the best possible way. From 1987 to 1997, when Sprout was a songwriter for Guided by Voices, his simple writing stood in contrast to frontman Robert Pollard\u2019s bombast. That same distinctive style is on full display on \u201cThe Man I Used to Know,\u201d his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 05:20:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}