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Q MagazineDec 11, 2012Carry Me Back feels like a sidestep towards a more traditional sound. [Jan 2013, p.108]
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Nov 30, 2012Carry Me Back ticks all the boxes: jaunty, soulful, nostalgic without being cloying.
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Nov 21, 2012It's the achievement of their fourth studio album that this giddy mix hangs together as an endearing whole.
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Nov 19, 2012A polished set of original songs that stretch their old-timey, southern identity into new shapes.
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MagnetAug 23, 2012Although the harmonies and pickin-skills are still top-notch, Carry Me Back falls short in songwriting. [No.90, p.59]
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Under The RadarAug 22, 2012These harrowing tackles of murder, bootleggers and war jangle the heart's cage. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.124]
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Jul 25, 2012With their latest offering Carry Me Back, the banjos are ringin', the mandolins are singing at the speed of a hummingbird's wings, the fiddles are sawed upon with vigor, and the fog of the Tennessee hills calls to all of us.
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Jul 19, 2012The songs never stray far from the band's wheelhouse, yet they feel energized and impactful.
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Jul 18, 2012Yeah, it's the new OCMS album and, not surprisingly, it's simple and great (and simply great).
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Jul 18, 2012Carry Me Back stands as one of the group's strongest efforts to date.
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Jul 17, 2012These are also simply the band's finest songs in some time.
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Jul 17, 2012Carry Me Home, the band's latest, doesn't suffer from a shortage of whimsy, but its surplus of cringe-inducing aw-shucks hokeyness is problematic.
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Jul 16, 2012What's most impressive about the songs on Carry Me Back is that, in composing their original material, OCMS manages to apply their old-timey frame of reference to contemporary issues with subtlety and control.
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Jul 16, 2012With all the percolating energy the album delivers, its three most memorable songs are ballads.
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Jul 16, 2012Thought and care are in these songs, and they all fall together in a nice flow.