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Q MagazineAug 28, 2014His world of heartbreak, damage and survival attains an out-of-time quality that admirers of superior barroom soundtracks will warm to. [Sep 2014, p.113]
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Aug 7, 2014With Shattered, he isn’t just showing today’s garage-rock young guns he’s still got it. He’s showing them how it’s done.
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Jul 17, 2014Although his knack for delivering the “incredible hook” remains Cartwright’s strongest suit, there’s a weighty sense that all of this would mean nothing if not for his insatiable spirit.
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Jul 17, 2014With this brilliant turn they take it a step further. They prove you don’t need to deconstruct genre to make it new. You just need to write great songs, know where they came from, and play the hell out of them.
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Jul 15, 2014A boldly traditional, and fantastically well-rounded album of rock ‘n’ roll.
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Jul 15, 2014This is confident, uplifting music from a true-believing family man and sometimes electrician with no apparent desire to play stadiums or steep himself in mystique.
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Jul 15, 2014Apparently Cartwright exorcised his punk rock demons with Desperation, as Shattered is the band’s most accessible record yet.
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Jul 14, 2014Some Reigning Sound fans might miss the harder-rocking side of the band, but if you're looking for ten new Greg Cartwright songs sung with real heart and soul, Shattered is just what you've been waiting for.
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Jul 14, 2014In a humbler, warmer, more openhearted way, Reigning Sound have risen above themselves--as well as the garage-rock idiom that spawned them--while spiritually hewing true.
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Jul 14, 2014A decade on he treads a familiar path of homespun blues and rock'n'roll, happily unencumbered by musical fashion and with deeply satisfying results.
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Jul 10, 2014Shattered is a grown-up, repeat-listen rock record of rare quality, and a great addition to an already astoundingly good back catalogue.
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Jul 8, 2014Recording in the Daptone's House of Soul studio in Brooklyn seems to have lent the proceedings a perfect patina of warm, mid-range goodness. [Jun-Jul 2014, p.87]
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MojoJul 8, 2014Their sixth also has a twinkly eye, and Cartwright's songwriting is never less than a joy. [Aug 2014, p.96]
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UncutJul 8, 2014[A] stunningly assured fifth studio album. [Aug 2014, p.80]
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Jul 8, 2014Shattered is a deeply comfortable and comforting thirty minutes of expertly curated rock-and-soul.
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