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My Old, Familiar Friend is the fourth album by American musician Brendan Benson, released on August 18, 2009. The first single, "A Whole Lot Better," was released on the same day. The album debuted at No. 110 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums in the US.

My Old, Familiar Friend
Studio album by Brendan Benson
Released	August 18, 2009
Recorded	Nashville, TN and London, England
Genre	Rock
Length	40:25
Label	ATO Records
Producer	Dave Sardy, Gil Norton
Brendan Benson chronology
The Alternative to Love (2005) My Old, Familiar Friend (2009) What Kind of World (2012)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Drowned in Sound	[3]
The Guardian	[4]
Paste Magazine	(7.4/10)[5]
Pitchfork Media	(7.0/10)[6]
PopMatters	[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Slant Magazine	[9]
Spin	[10]

My Old, Familiar Friend was recorded in 2007, in between Benson's work on Broken Boy Soldiers and Consolers of the Lonely, as a member of The Raconteurs.

Track listing

All songs written by Brendan Benson, except where noted.

iTunes bonus track

Limited edition

References

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