• Record Label: Partisan
  • Release Date: Jun 16, 2015
Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
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  1. Magnet
    Jun 9, 2015
    85
    Restless Ones is a statement of collective confidence and ambitious vision. [No. 121, p.55]
  2. Jun 15, 2015
    80
    The group has expanded to four pieces for its most accomplished, most musical album yet.
  3. Jun 15, 2015
    80
    These songs capture an outstanding band hitting its stride, and growing more comfortable with the craft of record-making along with singing and playing great, passionate music.
  4. Uncut
    Jun 9, 2015
    80
    Submerged are the country/folk ramblings of 2012's Arrow, replaced with a challenging density. [Jul 2015, p.77]
  5. Jun 17, 2015
    78
    Restless Ones can’t quite translate their live show to record (2005’s Stairs and Elevators remains the high water mark for that), but it does perhaps the best job yet of mediating between the band’s ragged past and its veteran road warrior present.
  6. Jun 11, 2015
    78
    The combination of Wennerstrom's singular vocal style and the Bastards' multilayered guitars remains both lyrically commanding and musically transcendent.
  7. Jun 18, 2015
    70
    Despite the blues-rock foundation and occasional lo-fi fuzz, Restless Ones is a wonderfully polished album.
  8. 70
    They’re a light-footed prospect, made still more intriguing by Erika Wennerstrom’s curiously detached vocal.
  9. Jun 9, 2015
    67
    The results make for a slightly more reserved, yet more effective turn for the band.
  10. Jun 11, 2015
    66
    Restless Ones establishes Heartless Bastards as a straightforward arena-rock band, one that's grown more refined with time.
  11. Aug 6, 2015
    60
    The LP feels more casual than previous ones, but that's by no means a negative. [Aug-Sep 2015, p.79]
  12. Jul 23, 2015
    60
    The record, produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Swans), was pulled together after a year spent on the road, and it shows.

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