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Feb 2, 2015Berkeley To Bakersfield is the perfect shotgun rider for any road trip. With the breadth of its variety no other music passengers need be invited along for the ride.
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UncutJan 7, 2015A cutting, driving, defiantly hook-happy set (mostly) focused on survival amid America's income-inequality nightmare. [Feb 2015, p.75]
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Dec 15, 2014Whilst Berkeley has an obvious theme, there’s a feeling of movement and diversity on the album, and the ideas are put forward in such a way as to make this album relevant to modern life and not just California.... Bakersfield takes on an altogether different style again; we’re headed to the country, and it’s entirely understandable why these songs were grouped and recorded separately.
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Dec 15, 2014Berkeley to Bakersfield is one of Cracker's most ambitious and satisfying sets in quite some time, as good as anything they've given us since Kerosene Hat in 1993.
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Dec 15, 2014While the result can’t be dismissed as a gimmick, the best tracks of both would have made a great single album. Spread out over two shorter ones, the effect is diluted.
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Dec 15, 2014The 73 minutes of music on Cracker’s new double album would fit comfortably on a single disc, but Berkeley to Bakersfield is an intentional act of musical centrifuge that separates the band’s rock and country elements into separate containers.