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All Across This Land
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All Across This Land
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No longer concerned with making even the slightest feint toward delicate indie rock sensibilities,
settle into the '70s on
, their eighth album but only third since retooling themselves as hirsute troubadours. With its ten songs weighing in at a mere 40 minutes,
feels designed to be spun on vinyl, with the first side setting like a sunset with "Lonesome Angel" and the second side crashing out of the gate with "Nights Were Made for Love," a song designed as both an open-road anthem and a third single to be serviced to AOR.
's period trappings -- which, outside of the occasional old-fashioned synth purloined from 1985, are meticulously accurate -- are the key to their charm, because they devote as much attention to their arrangements and productions as they do their songs. A fair chunk of
hews to a burnished folk-rock suited to the wide-open plains -- it's a combination of
and
, skewed by a dash of
-- but the songs that pull in the attention are the lumbering riff-rockers, the ones that open the album and set a muscular, nostalgic tone that, if you're of a certain disposition, is pretty hard to resist. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine