Another Look: Brenn!, ‘Amateur at Best’ ⁠63%

By Sam Graessle⁠75%

8/6/2026, 1:54:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 28.3% saturation with 89 hits. Analysis detected 582 faulty-reasoning hits from 315 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 49.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠63% (11,393 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 62.80% of the article peer group.

If folk-pop star Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide has left you with an itch to scratch — namely for a project that evokes a relationship left behind when the singer left their hometown — Brennan Keller might just have what you’re looking for. 
The 21-year-old Nashvillian by way of Alabama, who performs as Brenn!, released his first full-length Amateur at Best June 12 via Darkroom Records. 
The album builds a compelling narrative through the lyrical storytelling reflected in past releases like “4runner” and “Franklin House,” standout tracks from previous EPs. 
Comparing a slowly eroding romantic relationship to a baseball game, Amateur at Best puts the listener in the stands, looking on as Keller stumbles and slides through his fight to get back to home. 
The acoustic-driven record begins a high note with “Homerun,” whose powerful stacked vocals stand on the unfussy but inviting arrangement featuring Hunter Strasser on guitar, Baily Johnstone on bass and Estevan Barrientez on drums. 
Upbeat strumming is the foundation for the title track, despite lyrics that explore forlorn baseball analogies and Keller’s feelings of inadequacy as a partner. 
On “Shiver,” he pulls back on the emotional intensity and turns his metaphors cold, comparing the ice building up in his relationship to frostbite eating at his skin. 
Several songs on the record crescendo only to end abruptly, like the cleanup hitter striking out with bases loaded, mirroring the turbulence of a romance in trouble. 
Keller comes full-circle with weary resignation on the closer “Silhavy,” confessing “I’m not the same and I can’t love you anymore” and carrying all the weight of growing out of your adolescent relationships. 
Find the record on your favorite streaming service or on Brenn!’ 
s website, and follow him on Instagram for updates. 
His headline club tour will bring him back to his adopted hometown for a show Oct. 10 at Exit/In. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 1.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 3.4%Nashville Scene: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 13.7%Sam Graessle: 2.8%Nashville Scene: 2.3%Availability Heuristic13.7%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 1.3%Nashville Scene: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 15.6%Sam Graessle: 3.7%Nashville Scene: 3.1%Framing Effect15.6%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 2.3%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 7.6%Sam Graessle: 2.3%Nashville Scene: 0.6%Pessimism Bias7.6%This article: 28.3%Sam Graessle: 4.6%Nashville Scene: 3.4%Negativity Bias28.3%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.9%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.6%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 7.6%Sam Graessle: 6.5%Nashville Scene: 2.9%Halo Effect7.6%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 10.5%Sam Graessle: 1.3%Nashville Scene: 0.8%Recency Bias10.5%This article: 10.8%Sam Graessle: 1.3%Nashville Scene: 0.5%Primacy Effect10.8%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 1.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 3.2%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 27.0%Sam Graessle: 3.4%Nashville Scene: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion27.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 1.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 1.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 8.9%Sam Graessle: 1.1%Nashville Scene: 0.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)8.9%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 10.5%Sam Graessle: 2.6%Nashville Scene: 0.4%Unattributed Quote10.5%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 18.4%Sam Graessle: 19.2%Nashville Scene: 5.4%Biased Writer Voice18.4%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Sam Graessle: 0.0%Nashville Scene: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 26.0%Sam Graessle: 12.0%Nashville Scene: 0.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…26.0%

315 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers13%attributed speech273writer words
Selected voice

Exit/In

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words45% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +76.9 ptsWriter: 23.1%Exit/In: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-21.2 ptsWriter: 21.2%Exit/In: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-12.1 ptsWriter: 12.1%Exit/In: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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