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Oct 28, 2011While Live Music sometimes feels a little too rambling for its own good, the growth the band shows is even more impressive because it seems so effortless.
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Oct 28, 2011Live Music opens with the roguish piano line of "Me and You" that simultaneously pops like a spark and settles lazily into Ryan Sambol's moaning vocals, setting up the freewheeling aura that permeates the A-side.
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Oct 31, 2011So far, so chin-strokingly barroom--but then things take a turn for the interesting and Live Music becomes a more-frills-than-you-might-imagine, no filler delight.
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Nov 14, 2011The album is not a total departure from previous work, and their admirers will be elated at this crackerjack effort and the opportunity to live music the Strange Boys way once again.
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Oct 28, 2011Essentially, if you like the sound of men that sound like they drink a lot and make a lot of bad decisions in life, have people die around them and then like to sing about it, set to a raucous soundtrack of guitars, drums and piano... then Strange Boys are pretty adept at all of those things.
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Nov 3, 2011Live Music regresses into stylistic confusion, but the gems are worth the wait.
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MojoJan 19, 2012A warm twangy sound, evocative of Southern, sun-paralysed afternoons. [Dec 2011, p. 100]
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Oct 28, 2011If The Strange Boys were Brits, you get the impression they'd officially be a big deal by now.
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Dec 9, 2011The album is restrained, surprisingly low-key, and-- at its lowest points-- polite.
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Dec 9, 2011As Sambol unravels that theme across these 14 songs, the album grows more endearing, if never quite exciting.
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Nov 17, 2011As it is, it feels like there's a couple too many tracks.
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Q MagazineDec 15, 2011A collection of loose - in fact, very loose - rock-n-roll with at least one foot in the '60s. [Dec. 2011 p. 136]
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Oct 28, 2011The absence of sonic violence and impenetrable murk has made the Strange Boys sound unexpectedly emaciated and bloodless.
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UncutNov 11, 2011The Strange Boys have added some muscle to the general mix. [Dec 2011, p.83]