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- Summary: Frontman Jay Farrar produced the band's fifth album.
- Record Label: Red Ink
- Genre(s): Rock, Alt-Country
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 16
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Mixed: 7 out of 16
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Negative: 1 out of 16
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Billboard"The Search" is Son Volt 2.0, a modern, mature album that might be the group's best yet. [10 Mar 2007]
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UncutSon Volt have discovered a new sense of ambition, even abandon, on The Search. [May 2007, p.104]
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While it may be impossible for this Son Volt to ever reach the pinnacle of their 1995 debut, no one can accuse Jay Farrar of going through the motions.
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SpinIt's a sober cruise down the white line between timelessness and nostalgia. [May 2007, p.90]
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Paste MagazineOn The Search... Farrar discovers some genuinely exciting new haunts, and frontloads them conveniently. [Mar 2007, p.62]
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It comes off sounding like a transitional recording, but with Son Volt any change is welcome.
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BlenderThe saggy country-rock complaints about corporatization and alienation [Farrar] offers... sound like submissions to an Air America poetry contest. [Apr 2007, p.121]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 13
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Mixed: 0 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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jakosMar 6, 2007Awsome! Jay has done it again
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TimAMar 5, 2007
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A.GrayApr 16, 2007Best since Trace. "Mthamphetamine" and "Underground Dream" are classic alt-country songs.
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MikeJMar 7, 2007
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DaveHMar 18, 2007Incredible. "Highways and cigarettes" is the most hauntingly beautiful song I have heard in years.
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drewcMar 20, 2007Best album Jay Farrar has created yet!!
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RobSMar 16, 2007
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