Album Reviews7.8/10
Fruit Bats’ ‘Gold Past Life’: Nostalgia That Never Curdles
Fruit Bats' Gold Past Life mixes warm nostalgia and folk-rock polish, anchored by standout track 'Your Dead Grandfather.' 8/10.
CLAY TRIBUNE / THE ARCHIVE
Tag: folk rock
Album Reviews7.3/10
Neil Young’s Prairie Wind Rates a 7.3 — Warm Acoustic Craft Undercut by a Bloated Deluxe Edition
Prairie Wind is Neil Young’s return to the acoustic, string-and-harmonica sound of Harvest and Harvest Moon. It arrives in 2005 shaped by two events: a brain aneurysm Young survived and the death of his father. The deluxe edition reviewed here runs 26 tracks and 68 minutes, mixing the album’s nine songs with spoken interview segments […]
Album Reviews8.8/10
Local Honey: Brian Fallon Trades the Highway for the Porch — 8.8/10
A quiet porch record: Local Honey trades sweep for plain truth, and love long settled into ease.