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Todd Snider
- Record Label: Aimless Records
- Release Date: Mar 6, 2012
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Mar 7, 2012If you're in the mood for a few laughs and some well-directed anger from a guy with something to say and a knack for saying it well, Todd Snider is just the man you've been looking for.
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Mar 13, 2012This record is urgent, pissed, strident and macabre.
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Jul 5, 2012Upon first listen, meanwhile, Agnostic Hymns is disorienting. Snider's voice is typically craggy, but the music is too. Amanda Shires' violin shadows his words, and the rhythms occasionally miss a beat. Once things come into focus, his stories are of those affected by the Great Recession, told with a wrath rarely expressed.
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Apr 18, 2012Snider proves yet again that he is still one of the best musical commentators going today.
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May 10, 2012While Snider has been more entertaining and melodically engaging on previous efforts, here he risks trying to get his head around the disturbing times in which we live and, just as importantly, to avoid clichéd responses.
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Mar 6, 2012he's scored a full album's worth of new material that remains completely in a character unique to him while adding something new to that character.
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Mar 13, 2012Todd Snider's reputation as America's favorite alt-folk shit disturber remains firmly intact with the release of his newest album Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables.
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Apr 2, 2012It's a niche that a guy like Todd Snider can wear like a glove, and this particular album is an easy fit into his discography.
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Q MagazineJun 20, 2012Like a musical Bill Hicks, Snider's easy humour expresses his nonetheless serious message with a grace and poignancy few can muster. [Jun 2012, p.96]
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Mar 6, 2012Todd Snider's latest is the sharpest musical response yet to the excesses of the one percent: hilarious, infuriated broadsides about economic injustice delivered in Snider's stoner drawl over twangy roots rock.
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Mar 6, 2012Agnostic Hymns impresses just as much for its tunefulness and Snider and producer Eric McConnell's unconventional choices as for its arch point of view.
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Mar 6, 2012Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables is Snider's 12th album, and it's one of the roughest-hewn he's ever made.
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Mar 8, 2012Set to a messy blend of waspish blues guitar and wild fiddle, it's a typically barbed, angry set.
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Mar 6, 2012This is country music for nostalgists and liberals, for a listener who most likely expresses shock at what mainstream country music has become, but who likes dogma delivered in a rural package.
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Mar 21, 2012Paul Griffith (drums); Amanda Shires (violins/vocals and a gifted songwriter with her own album Lightning Strikes just out); Chad Staehly (keyboards); Jason Isbell (guitars) and Mick Utley (vocals) add the expertly jaunty sound to Snider's ironic and enjoyably dark lyrics.
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UncutApr 6, 2012The songs are suited by the rough and tumble, though, wearing the bruises with poise and pride. [May 2012, p.83]
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