“Rockers’ latest is their most musically adventurous album yet”
“Dark, ominous, but still marching forth with that same bar-rock passion, the Hold Steady feel more unified, making a place for each member within their music’s newfound sprawl.”
“The Hold Steady offer up sweet relief on another immersive musical treasure trove”
“Given Craig Finn’s powerful depictions of the minor triumphs and tragedies of normal working Americans in his lyrics, dog-whistle Springsteen comparisons – “blue-collar rock”, say – have inevitably followed Brooklyn-based six-piece the Hold Steady and their take on the barroom-rock stylings of Sire-era Replacements over a near-20-year career. Their eighth album hardly goes out of its way to discou”
