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Jun 15, 2015These 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.
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Jun 11, 2015The combination of Wennerstrom's singular vocal style and the Bastards' multilayered guitars remains both lyrically commanding and musically transcendent.
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Jul 23, 2015The 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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Jun 15, 2015The group has expanded to four pieces for its most accomplished, most musical album yet.
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Jun 9, 2015They’re a light-footed prospect, made still more intriguing by Erika Wennerstrom’s curiously detached vocal.
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Jun 9, 2015The results make for a slightly more reserved, yet more effective turn for the band.
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MagnetJun 9, 2015Restless Ones is a statement of collective confidence and ambitious vision. [No. 121, p.55]
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Jun 11, 2015Restless Ones establishes Heartless Bastards as a straightforward arena-rock band, one that's grown more refined with time.
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Jun 18, 2015Despite the blues-rock foundation and occasional lo-fi fuzz, Restless Ones is a wonderfully polished album.
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Jun 17, 2015Restless 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.
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UncutJun 9, 2015Submerged are the country/folk ramblings of 2012's Arrow, replaced with a challenging density. [Jul 2015, p.77]
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Aug 6, 2015The LP feels more casual than previous ones, but that's by no means a negative. [Aug-Sep 2015, p.79]