- Record Label: New West
- Release Date: Jan 22, 2008
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Universal acclaim- based on 46 Ratings
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Positive: 42 out of 46
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ScottH.Mar 12, 2008It's whiney, twangy, predictable, pretty annoying.
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Awards & Rankings
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Brighter Than Creation's Dark is one of the meanest, leanest 19-track albums you'll ever spin.
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Entertainment WeeklySouthern-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]
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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.