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Entertainment Weekly - "...gentle, weird, and disturbing as ever..." - Rating: A-Musician (6/95, p.73) - "...a return to his John Lennon/Syd Barrett-inspired roots....an intimate recording--just Hitchcock on acoustic guitar and piano performing a batch of truly wonderful songs--and perhaps the most overlooked album of his career..."Goldmine - Highly Recommended76.19347
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Melody Maker (7/8/95, p.34) - "...thoroughly Home Counties, Syd Barrett-inspired songs sporting reptile heads and porcupine quills...deserves a shrine within the tiny pantheon of excellent post-Sixties acid rock..."52.2055
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Magnet (p.100) - "It's a winner, stringing antsy, Superchunk-flavored rockers beside fuzzy, romantic declarations..."CMJ - "[C]onsistently indelible sunbeams of songs."Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]he fidelity is pretty uniform, and the band's essentially optimistic, sunny disposition holds true across ballads and pop songs alike."19.56004
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CMJ (12/20/99, p.3) - "...guaranteed to turn an audience into a frothy dancing mass. The group has seemingly perfected a jumpin', jivin' musical equation."JazzTimes (4/00, pp.101-2) - "...This is smash-mouth jazz with an R&B chaser. The good time [Squirrel Nut] Zippers would be proud."17.87364
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New Music Monthly (7/99, p.52) - "...SUMMERTOWN is a delightful set of shamelessly melodic pop songs with an appropriately clean, warm production....one of the best debuts of recent memory..."17.87364
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Uncut (6/03, p.93) - "...The Cramps-flogging-Highway 61 fireball of 'Tiger Tiger' is further proof they're the best roots-rollers since early Blasters..."Magnet (4/03, p.105) - "...The Sadies' influences have added just the right shades to their musical palette..."Mojo (Publisher) (5/03, p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The desert musical motifs glue it together beautifully..."17.87364
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Uncut (p.91) - 3 stars out of 5 - "A QUESTION OF TEMPERATURE is the sound of Stamey letting off steam, with the emphasis firmly on guitars and spontaneity."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[I]t's the covers that stand out..."17.87364
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Uncut (8/03, p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A fun item that swings both ways..."Magnet (9/03, pp.97-8) - "...Peter Zaremba remains one of rock's coolest and funniest frontmen....These guys swing, all right..."17.87364
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Q (3/04, p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[The album] keeps the spirit of pre-Beatles rock'n'roll ticking over with a brisk 13 tracks....A fun spot to visit..."17.87364
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Uncut (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]he reverb-drenched Sun sound has been lovingly approximated in clean, simple style along with its lyrics' delinquent disaffection."17.87364
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Dirty Linen (8-9/01, p.82) - "...This collection works on 2 levels, as a twangy roots-rock album and as a set of honest songs whose meanings go deeper than you'd first expect..."Mojo (Publisher) (4/01, p.92) - "...Sturdy, confident country..."17.87364
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Rolling Stone (5/29/03, p.60) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Exhibiting more confidence and some adventurous musical turns..."Entertainment Weekly (4/25/03, pp.150-1) - "...This time she's back in alt-country territory....[OUT] brims with beautiful, confidently delivered tunes about love...and all its inherent dangers..." - Rating: A-Uncut (5/03, p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A couple of country weepies bear redemptive powers..."Magnet (6-7/03, p.88) - "...[Shows] Cary as a striking singer and improving songwriter..."17.87364
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Uncut (6/03, p.113) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Singer John Howie Jr's throaty delivery - steeped in classic tears-in-beers lore - is perfect for these tales of woe and women..."17.87364
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Mojo (Publisher) (10/03, p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...This suits mournful late-night listening..."17.87364
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Q (10/03, p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 - "DANDELION moves Holley into rockier territory without losing the intimacy and vivid observation that made her first album so enjoyable..."17.87364
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CMJ (10/23/00, p.18) - "...Introduces the shadowy sounds of ambient space-rock into its trademark music....doing so with some amount of subtlety..."17.87364
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Rolling Stone (p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 - "In his best moments, Fulks sounds like the wiseass bastard son of Roger Miller - high praise indeed."Entertainment Weekly (No. 821/822, p.141) - "[A]nyone who loves the country music of the '50s, '60s, and '70s will relish GEORGIA HARD, Fulks' near masterpiece of homage..." - Grade: AUncut (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[A]n acerbic and reverential pastiche planted firmly in early-'70s countrypolitan and honky-tonk storytelling traditions."Dirty Linen (p.84) - "[The album] covers a lot of ground while remaining decidedly country in spirit and approach."17.87364
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Uncut (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The Texan garage veteran puts all his fun, earthly sins aside in honour of the season, and bursts forth with a baker's dozen of common Christmas staples."17.87364
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Magnet (p.68) - "Frontman Tim Putnam's tremeloed warble is the band's most potent weapon..."CMJ (4/04, p.46) - "WIRE POST TO WIRE is a highly textured album with innovative instrumentation, thoughtful lyrical intensity and complex and passionate beauty."17.87364
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Uncut (6/03, p.109) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Fundamental rock music with no unnecessary frills..."Magnet (8-9/02, p.82) - "...Simply the best thing this band has done..."CMJ (7/22/02, p.14) - "...Nice masterpiece, boys!..."17.87364
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Magnet (p.110) - "Not since Bryan Ferry has there been a vocalist quite so deliciously and quiveringly overwrought as the Standard's Tim Putnam....Some of the most captivating progressive pop on the planet."17.87364
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Magnet (pp.87-8) - "THIS AFFAIR is as easy as a one-night stand without the guilt."17.87364
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Uncut (p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "More meditative, this fifth LP hones the Southern harmonies and guitar-pickin' crosstalk of the brothers Good..."Magnet (p.135) - "[With] a healthy dose of swirling psychedelia and a distinctly Byrdsian spirit that hovers over their brotherly harmonies and twin jangling guitars."Mojo (Publisher) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Thrilling pop-country harmonies. Sparkling, jangly acoustic guitars. A seamless, melodic blend of psychedelia and C&W....The songs and instrumentals here hang together beautifully."17.87364
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CMJ (9/4/00, p.24) - "...Power-pop [mixing] gorgeous harmonies, chiming guitars, and lilting melodies...with a strong sense of their lineage..."17.87364
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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.130) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A formidible collection of dreamy folk-pop songs..."Magnet (6-7/02, p.81) - "...Cary senses she's singing in top form and commands expansive emotional range..."17.87364
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Magnet (11/03, p.101) - "...The Straitjackets conjure a time of sockhops, soda shops and beach parties..."Mojo (Publisher) (1/04, p.103) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This maverick Nashville-based quartet, whose stage schtick includes Mexican wrestling masks, lovingly crafted all the tunes themselves..."17.87364
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Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Gunslingers' sounds like some lost pop-rock gem from 1973."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.49) - "'Friends Like You' in particular captures the group's fusion of power-pop tuneage and giddy rock thunder..."17.87364
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Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] power-pop record that flows like the Minutemen's DOUBLE NICKLES ON THE DIME."Spin (p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The result plays like the greatest British Invasion best-of you've never heard."Alternative Press (p.119) - "[G]lorious, sunny pop pastiche....You'll never want to hear the end of this..."Magnet (p.99) - "NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT mostly rolls with mellow '70s gold sounds and the band's most McCartney-esque melodies."17.87364
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Rolling Stone (p.134) - "[H]ere they build fresh, bracing psychedelia from the paisley-tremolo guitars of the '65 Charlatans and the fine whine and tight-curl licks of the '68-'69 Byrds."Uncut (p.121) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he lissom guitars of brothers Dallas and Travis Good still allow for thrilling detours, from hot-rod romps to modern takes on Mary Robbins' sagebrush ballads."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]heir studio albums have been moving away from virtuoso instrumentals towards vocal songs, of which this album has some excellent examples."17.87364
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Dirty Linen (p.76) - "Blessed with a smooth country twang, Lauderdale can summon up echoes of George Jones, Buck Owens, or Ricky Skaggs while crooning a top-drawer batch of original tunes."No Depression (p.92) - "'Chances' comes as close to bluegrass Buddhism as you're likely to hear....Bluegrass purists will feel perfectly at home here."Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[N]ew old-time songs with a contemporary edge, written alone or with notables such as JD Souther, Shawn Camp and septuagenarian Melba Montgomery, and beautifully performed."17.87364
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No Depression (p.106) - "It's a potent brew of tough, impassioned instrumentation and vivid, ominous imagery, strong stuff even when ladled with whimsy, and melodically catchy enough to stick to your innards."17.87364
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