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10.0
9970
10.0 |
Uncut
The Truckers do here what they do better than almost anyone else - which is blow the fucking roof off
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9.0
10448
9.0 |
Blurt
The album is filled with big riffs and sweet hooks, and frankly it's the band's best collection of songs since the mid 2000s heyday of Decoration Day and the Dirty South
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9.0
10580
9.0 |
No Ripcord
This could be the record to finally draw you in. For longtime followers, however, The Big To-Do is a smaller slice of the same cornbread, which would be a problem if it weren’t so good
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8.5
10178
8.5 |
The Line Of Best Fit
This album is the culmination of everything that the Truckers ever wanted to accomplish
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8.4
10230
8.4 |
Beats Per Minute
Fans may still be waiting for the album that sums up Drive-By Truckers’ terrific career, but The Big To-Do is far better than a stopgap
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8.0
10132
8.0 |
PopMatters
Its stellar collection of memorable rockers make it a great addition to the band’s already impressive catalogue
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8.0
10085
8.0 |
The Independent
The Truckers have reverted to something close to the big rock sound of their 2002 classic Southern Rock Opera, with waspish slide-guitar and organ fattening up the monster guitar riffs
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8.0
10089
8.0 |
Evening Standard
If you yearn for the great days of Tom Petty and Neil Young, you will love this retro-monster
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8.0
10670
8.0 |
Scotland on Sunday
Hood's straight to the point rockers ... form the record's back bone
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8.0
11034
8.0 |
FasterLouder
Fans will love the new record and newcomers will marvel at the many songwriting highlights
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8.0
11889
8.0 |
Rave Magazine
Country rock purists may be unhappy with the band almost abandoning some of their greatest deep South influences in lieu of a more straightforward bar band rock & roll, but when aren’t country rock purists complaining about something?
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7.4
10172
7.4 |
Pitchfork
The best moments of The Big To-Do nonetheless offer tantalizing proof that these guys still possess fascinatingly warped minds when they feel like showing 'em off
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7.0
10183
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
There's no flash whatsoever — just seasoned professionals delivering doggedly tuneful, meticulously detailed vignettes
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7.0
9922
7.0 |
Spin
...features another cast of walking-dead survivors struggling with their vices in a Faulknerian landscape of rocked-up desperation
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7.0
10111
7.0 |
Independent on Sunday
If their fi is resolutely lo, then it's worth putting up with for the songs behind the riffs, which remain as literate, heart-felt and parochial as you could wish for
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7.0
9990
7.0 |
NME
Never have Patterson Hood’s five-piece sounded quite so cranky and furiously righteous
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7.0
9972
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
Those who haven’t heard the Truckers can continue to pass them by, those that have can continue to look forward to more of the same
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6.0
9981
6.0 |
Q
Print edition only
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6.0
9971
6.0 |
Mojo
Print edition only
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6.0
10058
6.0 |
The Guardian
Musically, the DBTs manage a decent range – from big, squalling rockers to teary, lap-steel balladry – albeit without throwing any great surprises
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6.0
10072
6.0 |
The Fly
Although uneven, standout tracks ‘Birthday Boy’ and ‘This Fucking Job’ sum it up best - that life just ain’t that easy
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6.0
10592
6.0 |
The Skinny
It’s an album which is assuredly bullied by Patterson Hood’s bravado, and delivers everything one would expect of a Truckers release
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6.0
10756
6.0 |
Eye Weekly
To appreciate the Truckers, you’ve got to be in the fan club, but membership has its benefits
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