Brighter Than Creation's Dark
by Drive-By Truckers
  • Record Label: New West
  • Release Date: Jan 22, 2008
User Score
8.7

Universal acclaim- based on 46 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 46
  3. Negative: 2 out of 46

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  1. ScottH.
    Mar 12, 2008
    4
    It's whiney, twangy, predictable, pretty annoying.

Awards & Rankings

34
#34 Best Album of 2008
79
#79 Most Discussed Album of 2008

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Billboard
    80
    Brighter Than Creation's Dark is one of the meanest, leanest 19-track albums you'll ever spin.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    83
    Southern-rock riffs still anchor the tunes, but Brighter also throbs with pedal steel and creamy keys played by veteran R&B session guuy Spooner Oldham. [25 Jan 2008, p.68]
  3. Los Angeles Times
    88
    The result is a sprawling, 75-minute immersion in the dynamic between Patterson Hood's Neil Young/Tom Petty-influenced folk and rock and Steve Cooley's mix of Rolling Stones, stone country and Band-flavored folk-rock.
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