Soltero (aka Tim Howard) writes mean love songs about the freeze and thaw, the hem and haw of a young heart. The recordings alternately feature the melancholy of Leonard Cohen and the full-band bravado of Neil Young. With their lovelorn post-folk, Soltero is often compared to the likes of Pavement, Silver Jews, and Yo La Tengo. The Boston Globe even alleged that if Johnny Cash and Lee Hazelwood played together, they would sound something like Soltero. Indeed.