Boys and Girls in AmericaThe Hold Steady · 2006

pitchfork

9.4

“Like an American Jarvis Cocker, Craig Finn narrates tales of kids who dance and drink and screw cuz they've got nothing else to do-- and he does it all with a depth and scope rarely seen in contemporary rock.”

rollingstone

7.0

“Over two albums, the Hold Steady have staked their claim as America’s best bar band, pulling ragged glory from boozy riffage and the oddly gripping splutters of frontman-storyteller Craig Finn. Boys and Girls in America is a bit looser and brighter than last year’s Separation Sunday, and it eschews that album’s concept-record staging in favor […]”