Come Feel Me Tremble

Rolling Stone (11/27/03, p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Some of the loveliest work of Westerberg's career. He may portray himself as a drunken wreck, but judging from COME FEEL ME TREMBLE, Westerberg's neither down and out nor anywhere near finished as a songwriter." Entertainment Weekly (10/24/03, p.106) - "...The scratchy voice still aches, the guitar riffs still gleefully rip off the Faces, and the songs sound like they just fell out of bed: scruffy, endearing, occasionally stunning..." - Rating: B Uncut (01/04, pp.84-7) - Ranked #9 in Uncut's "Albums Of The Year 2003" Uncut (1/04, pp.102-3) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...It's an album of rebirth, renewal....COME FEEL ME is brazenly exclamatory." CMJ (11/10/03, p.6) - "...The album rides on the artist's recent (and welcome) spurt of creativity...TREMBLE finds its soul in a mix of tender moments and plenty of rock..." Mojo (Publisher) (12/03, p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[E]ngaging..."

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