seems pointless

There is, in seems pointless , a reverence for song that is, in the best possible way, "oldschool." The songs here come from the grand singer-songwriter tradition, wherein the songs--an eclectic collection, for sure--if they had been recorded many decades ago, might have been one person with an acoustic guitar. But after Todd Rundgren and Emmitt Rhodes, et al. showed that a collection of songs can be written/performed/recorded by the songwriter alone, one person with an acoustic guitar (which can still be an outstanding approach, of course) became less the default approach.
Also, blah, blah, blah, this and that, and a bunch of stuff about winning this and that award.