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Jul 18, 2013"Airs" is both a pleasing ending and one that reminds you of how much substance there is in the album overall--how many hooks, words, sounds, tones and impressions that stay with you afterwards.
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Jul 9, 2013It’s a consistent and, at times, deeply thoughtful record that is pleasantly familiar while offering occasional surprises. This easily stands up with the better end of Pollard’s work.
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Jul 9, 2013If Honey was a backyard bonfire, the final fourth of it would be the kindling. These songs crackle sustaining life beneath the heavy branches waiting to burn, too.
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Jul 15, 2013A surprising and moving step forwards in the restless career of a master melodian.
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Jul 30, 2013Smooth gems like “Airs” and “Who Buries the Undertaker” offset it with a relatively taut, clean sound that sometimes even recalls major-label-era Guided By Voices.
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Jul 9, 2013Rather than dour, however, the album sounds concerned, perhaps even worried, which illuminates even some of its weaker or seemingly extraneous tracks. It focuses Pollard, who sounds like a man who has said so much already but still has so much left to say.
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Jul 10, 2013Like his previous solo records, Honky Tonk does include some duds, but the majority of these 17 tracks are keepers.
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Jul 9, 2013The measured, modest, and melancholy "Airs" applies the finishing touches, wrapping up another flight of fancy from of one rock & roll's most illustrious, real-time dreamers.
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Jul 19, 2013It’s utterly consistent, simply arranged, and scrolls through the bad ideas fast enough to make them forgivable.