have you forgotten?

I don't know when it started, but all of a sudden, the Red House Painters make so much more sense for me.
Long, slow progressions. A voice that drags itself through the song with a melodic, melancholic apathy, echoing poetry over the vibrating dissonance of harmonized guitars.
Mark Kozelek sounds sad in a hospitalized way.
Time nowadays seems to move so slowly that it just matches the mood of songs like Have You Forgotten, or Byrd Joel. Who cares for three minutes, radio playability when you have all the time in the world - or at least, your whole life.