ROCKY VOTOLATO - The Brag & Cuss reviews
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| Silent Urpoar |
 The sixth LP from indie singer/songwriter Rocky Votolato finds him venturing out a bit from his previous releases, including 2006's Makers, to a place that's a little more country and a lot less rock and roll than his older work suggests. Interestingly, The Brag and Cuss is also the first time that Votolato has recorded with a full band, giving the album a much fuller sound than ever before. The album is anchored by both mid-tempo alt-country tunes such as "Lilly White," "Before You Were Born" and "Time Is Debt," as well as softer ballads like "The Wrong Side of Reno," "The Blue Rose," and "Whiskey Straight," the only song that hearkens back to Votolato's quieter days. Without a doubt, Votolato is one of the more talented songwriters out there, and he never allows the bigger sound of Brag to get in the way of that. Instead, he creates a sharp and focused album that is emerging as one of the year's strongest outputs....full text |
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| CokeMachineGlow |
| ocky Votolato, like Jeff Tweedy and Ryan Adams before him, has always had the archetypical alt-country voice: grilled to a crisp and whiskey soured. Now it's the musical chops of those predecessors that Votolato's aiming for. Tweedy's work in the seminal Uncle Tupelo and Adams' Heartbreaker (2000) both weigh heavy on The Brag & Cuss, Votolato's fifth solo album. It's a rootsier, more country-influenced album than last year's Makers, full of harmonica breaks and guitar licks as Southern as Colonel Sanders....full text |
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| Aversion |
| As a solo artist, the biggest problem facing Rocky Votolato was that it's always been too easy to write him off as just another low-budget knock-off of his contemporaries. When he was at his most lonesome and winsome (as on his last effort, 2006's Makers) he frequently felt like a PG-13 rated version of Elliott Smith's harrowing tales of drugs, struggles with faith and relationship problems. When he laid the pop on a little more thickly, his folk-pop musings seemed like Dashboard Confessional's quieter, older brother, with a penchant for brooding rather than histrionics. And, sure, those were both oversimplifications of the singer/songwriter's output, but other than on a handful of tracks from his last album, Votolato's songs very rarely made an argument to move past the easy parallels that spring to mind....full text |
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