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Oct 5, 2015With each turn back and forth, it’s a better, more confident band delivering the next phase. So even as All Across This Land is a triumph of Blitzen Trapper’s classic rock sensibilities, perhaps there’s an oddball masterpiece waiting in the wings.
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Oct 28, 2015The ballad Love Grow Cold has a hazy, 80s sheen and the rest of the album has its feet planted firmly in the 70s, but this is nevertheless a slick and timeless collection of songs.
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UncutOct 27, 2015Blitzen Trapper's rock-solid eigth boasts a pair of instant grabbers. [Dec 2015, p.69]
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Oct 14, 2015The 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.
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Oct 8, 2015This is a trustworthy and worthy addition to one’s album collection and live appointment book.
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Oct 5, 2015The arrangements and execution have finely coalesced, but the anything-goes spirit that sparked Blitzen Trapper’s late ‘00s renaissance seems to have moved on. The wild mountain nation has been tamed.
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MojoDec 14, 2015Eighth LP settles into a classic rock groove. [Jan 2016, p.98]
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Oct 26, 2015They play one too many Springsteen cards with the dark “Cadillac Road” (at this point, Bruce pretty much owns any lyrics that revolve around mills shutting down), but the record ends on another strong track, “Across the River.” Taken as a whole, All Across This Land is one of the group’s strongest offerings in years.
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Oct 5, 2015Singer-songwriter Eric Earley falls back on more subdued, and largely more generic, folksy Neil Young/Bob Dylanisms.
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Oct 5, 2015Ultimately, it seems that the likes of Springsteen, Dylan, and the rest of the well-worn idols, call many more of the shots than Blitzen Trapper as an independent entity.
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MagnetOct 14, 2015Cliched lyrics and predictable musicality make every song here sound the same. [No. 125, p.53]