• Record Label: New West
  • Release Date: Apr 10, 2020
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76

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Apr 30, 2020
    80
    LaFarge somehow manages to make the nostalgia sound authentic rather than gimmicky, which is quite an impressive feat.
  2. Apr 30, 2020
    80
    The record offers glimpses of living life on the edge, finding redemption, and then weathering life's problems. The narrator has changed, or maybe more accurately been scarred, by his experiences.
  3. Uncut
    Apr 30, 2020
    70
    He and the band skillfully avoid any notion of contrivance, instead bending these vintage styles to persuasive effect. [May 2020, p.28]
  4. Apr 30, 2020
    70
    Pokey LaFarge is still working out the math on how to exist in more than one decade at a time, but Rock Bottom Rhapsody has more than enough good things in it that he's probably going to be just fine wherever he finally settles down.

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