Palace Brothers [LP]

Rolling Stone (2/9/95, pp.58-59) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...Palace Brothers' second album sounds as if it were recorded on a boombox in the back room of an old country home....[PALACE BROTHERS] evoke[s] the Deep South that Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Band romanticized..." Spin (10/94, p.111) - Highly Recommended - "...there is something in the Palace Brother's plaints that is raw, uncalculated, and noble. What gets to me is not the boyishness of Oldham's voice, but its weary wisdom; it has real character, play acted or not..." Entertainment Weekly (11/11/94, p.76) - "...a collection of stripped-down country-folk....with its creaky-voiced renderings of simple themes..." - Rating: A- Q (10/94, p.124) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Moving, emotional and with a fractured vocal style reminiscent of a campfire country twang of old..." Uncut (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] fly-on-the-wall documentary piece -- its songs come with chaircreaks, and fingers squeaking on the fretboard." Melody Maker (9/10/94, p.39) - "...reluctant and grieving. This record is skeletal, spectral and un(self)consciously as mortal and sainted as anything I can imagine..." Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.52) - Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994". NME (Magazine) (9/3/94, p.55) - 7 - Very Good - "...this is raw and affecting stuff...another finely warped addition to 1994's collection of cool US underground albums..."