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  • Summary: The debut solo album for The Hold Steady's Franz Nicolay.

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World/Inferno vs. The End of the Evening
At an anarchist fortress in Roma We laid in each other's arms on the stone After all those nights and all of those fights I never felt less alone We... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. 80
    Fine writing, then, and there’s musical variety, too.
  2. Alternative Press
    80
    Nicolay serves it up hot, no matter what musical milieu is on the menu. [Feb 2009, p.106]
  3. Major General finds us with an accomplished and very steady collection of songs.
  4. For the most part, Major General comes off like a respectable sampler of regional singer-songwriter music.
  5. In the end, the album has more good than bad, and is worth a listen for curious Hold Steady fans.
  6. Q Magazine
    60
    In other words, the man's a ham, but a terrific one. [Aug 2009, p.109]
  7. Mojo
    40
    Major General plough's The Hold Steady's punk-pop narrative furrow almost to the point of surrealism. [Sep 2009, p.92]

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