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Jun 19, 2014It’s a cracked, smart and surprisingly powerful album, you just have to listen a bit closer than usual to hear what it’s trying to say.
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Jun 17, 2014This is challenging Americana that never takes its audience, or its influences, for granted.
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Q MagazineJun 13, 2014A compelling record, in which the moments of sudden tenderness stand strongest. [Jul 2014, p.105]
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Jun 24, 2014Favorite Waitress excels in its extremes--its hardest foot-stompers like “Lion” and its softest piano ballads like “Silver in the Shadow;” it’s that passion and focused emotion that made the band so beloved in the first place. What’s left in between, however, risks sounding too mainstream.
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Jun 16, 2014With Favorite Waitress, The Felice Brothers have elevated their songwriting without losing their rambunctious charm.
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Jul 7, 2014The songs lurch, sway, plunk and rock out; they turn cryptic or offer direct comfort, focusing the album’s many allusions to economic inequality.
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Jun 18, 2014The record succeeds when the band give into the temptation of pleasing their crowd with ramshackle tracks that will work well in a live setting.
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Jun 16, 2014The overall effect is a band that's dug in their heels in the studio and is going to make the most of the way the individual voices bounce off one another, and if they're shooting for something less challenging on Favorite Waitress, the feel of the music clearly seems to suit them.
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UncutJun 13, 2014It's to The Felice Brothers' credit that Favorite Waitress never quite becomes oppressively earnest, though it's a near thing at a couple points. [Jul 2014, p.75]
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MagnetJun 13, 2014Like many arch songwriters, the band tends to drop images and melodies from its favorite tunes into its work, phrases that add little sparks of frission to the Brothers' already strong melodic structure. [No. 110, p.54]