Glad All Over
- The Wallflowers
- Band Name: The Wallflowers
- Record Label: Columbia
- Release Date: Oct 9, 2012
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Oct 26, 201280Looser in feel and texture than their last couple of discs, with Dylan's husky vocals leading the way. [Dec 2012, p.78]
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Oct 19, 201270For the first time in their long career, the Wallflowers sound like a band that might actually be glad all over.
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Oct 17, 201270Glad All Over largely succeeds because it never devolves into simply getting the old band back together.
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Oct 9, 201280The Wallflowers have always been a band that excelled at bringing new life to things we'd heard before, and that remains true on Glad All Over.
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Oct 8, 201280The Wallflowers don't abandon their identity as rock & roll classicists, they just now feel the freedom to mess around, and they've come up with one of their loosest, liveliest records that not-so-coincidentally is one of their best.
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Oct 4, 201270Dylan's talent for matching, smart plentiful (arguably too much so) words to chiming melodies supported by a solid, unpretentious rock band and sung with conviction has returned.
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Oct 2, 201258All told, Dylan and company don't leave you glad all over--but maybe half-way.
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Oct 2, 201260It is probably Dylan's most distinctive statement. [Oct 2012, p.94]
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Oct 2, 201275Dylan spends too much time on Glad All Over treading safe waters.
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Oct 2, 201260Jakob Dylan's group has picked up where it left off: with sharp roots-rock songs full of sturdy hooks, deadpan jokes and pathos that sneaks up on you.