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In Genesis, the prophet Jacob wrestles through the night with a mysterious figure in the desert until the man gives him a blessing. This struggle is often interpreted as a mental struggle with God materialized into a climatic real-world wrestling bout. Kozelek, like the biblical Jacob, wrestles throughout his discography. On Benji, Kozelek’s meandering, stream-of-conscious lyricism pointed a mirror into his struggle with mortality and age. Common As Light can hardly be described in the ... read more