Some people think music critics are cynical jerks...

...or so says my friend Joel in his delightfully personal and thoughtful review/essay on Stars new record In Our Bedroom After the War.

I'm sad that Joel won't be writing any more music reviews because he was able to write them without being a cynical jerk, which drew me to start e-mailing him in the first place, and subsequently going on a blind double date with him and his awesome wife Sarah.

God be with them as they travel to China this year and start a new chapter in their lives.