In The Air

Rolling Stone (4/13/00, p.133) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Honky-pop and avant-tonk country music for people who would rather pretend Shania and Garth never existed....[They] continue to trade infinitely sad songs...without over-emoting..." Spin (1/01, p.76) - Ranked #4 in Spin's "10 Best Records You Didn't Hear Of The Year [2000]". Spin (6/00, p.162) - 8 out of 10 - "...The duo's craft reaching a peak....the prosaic economy of these images...deliver the uncanny in the voice of the ordinary..." Q (5/00, p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Certainly hypnotic, if possibly too dark for some tastes....Having more in common with Nick Cave than the Dixie Chicks..." CMJ (3/6/00, p.25) - "...[They] continue to weave the idyllic and the grotesque into an almost beautiful homage to country....proving once again that they're inimitable talents." No Depression (3-4/00, pp.109-110) - "...traditional country....Musically, Brett Sparks had an intuitive grasp of the form. He's adept at penning a mournful fiddler's waltz...a twangy, Johnny Cash-like shuffle...even a Jordanaires-styled gospel ballad..." Mojo (Publisher) (3/00, p.105) - "Superb....embracing not just sky, snow and birds plus earthy matters such as the ground-dweller's ambiguous relationship with nature and the ethereal....The innocent, jaunty, sorrowful beautifully-played music is the perfect counterpart." NME (Magazine) (3/11/00, p.34) - 7 out of 10 - "...alt-country's anti-Waltons....very probably, mad. But theirs is a beautiful madness....Warm like a thermal straitjacket."