Receiver

Receiver

Editorial Reviews
No Depression
The core group of [Mack] Linebaugh, multi-instrumentalist Richard McLaurin, bassist Brian Ray and drummer Sean Keith churns out a difficult-to-pigeonhole sound that variously recalls early R.E.M., the first couple of Jayhawks records and the desolate edge of Neil Young's more brooding efforts with Crazy Horse.

USA Today
[The single] "Paperthin," despite its criminal overtones, is a sweetly bouncy song full of all the possibilities of a summer evening in a convertible with your sweetheart. But things turn dark from there, as lap steel, guitars, mandolin and what the liner notes call a "weird looping device thingy" combine to give Receiver a foreboding feeling, as if that convertible were headed into a nasty line of thunderheads. The weary "For You I Will Pretend," the desperate "Undertow" and the rumbling "Consigned to Oblivion," which sounds like a cross between Blue Rodeo and middle-period R.E.M., are among the standout tracks.

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