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Laced with daydreamy pedal steel, the clear-eyed “Love & Harm” is some of the DIY mainstay’s more accessible work and also among his best.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2022

If your son grows up to be a daydreamy, time-averse artist, I wish him a partner who is untroubled by it, and with luck even supportive of it.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2019

I grew into a daydreamy kid, a bit of a ham, prone to musical interludes and baroque slapstick routines, reading books about séances, invertebrates, the Loch Ness Monster.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2015

Though boyish in his sulky, daydreamy demeanor, Pasha is nearing 40, with a wife and teenage son back in Odessa, where his debut collection of poetry is slowly attracting warm reviews.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2014

He liked to fix things with his hands; it made him feel peaceful and calm and daydreamy, and he was patient with a jammed clock.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston