• Record Label: New West
  • Release Date: Feb 24, 2017
Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. Feb 27, 2017
    90
    Sleeping Through The War strikes the perfect balance of the familiar and the alien to distill 45 minutes of musical opium. Bliss.
  2. 85
    Sleeping Through the War nods more than it winks, but it operates with its own in-joke sense of humor.
  3. Mar 20, 2017
    80
    Sleeping Through The War is the embodiment of a gentle giant: huge in presence but unwaveringly accessible.
  4. Mar 9, 2017
    80
    Sleeping Through The War is a slow burning experience but once that fire is lit then there’s no putting it out.
  5. Mar 3, 2017
    80
    Whether All Them Witches’ fans will approve in droves is unlikely, but instead of burying their heads in the sand maybe they should embrace the bands continuing evolution because at times it’s simply spellbinding.
  6. Mar 1, 2017
    80
    The Nashville-based quartet's fourth studio long-player, and second for New West Records, Sleeping Through the War is All Them Witches' most fully realized set to date, a sprawling yet remarkably focused effort that takes their exploratory, often spliced-together work ethic in a more stridently song-oriented direction.
  7. 80
    Sleeping Through The War apparently has some kind of political undercurrent, but its (thankfully) obfuscated by Charlie Michael Parks Jr’s unhurried drawl and the layers of fuzzy atmospherics that, hopefully, point to the shape of stoner rock to come.
  8. Kerrang!
    Feb 23, 2017
    80
    All Them Witches have conjured fresh landmarks all their own. [18 Feb 2017, p.52]
  9. Feb 23, 2017
    80
    The results are certainly a departure for an artist who seems to relish the chance to collaborate and while each of these ten songs is a Roberts original, the lush song craft recalls the golden age of electric folksters like Fairport Convention and Trees, ensuring Roberts' ongoing connection with the past.
  10. 80
    Between the album’s imaginative, original art work and music that follows suit, this is one CD you’ll want to hold in your hands and stare at as you strap in and let the inspired music unspool.
  11. Mojo
    Feb 24, 2017
    60
    This third outing developed a gnarly carpe diem edge. [Mar 2017, p.94]

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