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Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
| Allmusic |
| After 2002's Hard Candy with its hit single "American Girls," which was used in a television commercial, followed by a best-of and a live offering, it seemed that just maybe the Counting Crows had said everything they needed to and may have simply slipped quietly into rock & roll history. Not so. Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings is a reminder, in many ways, of just how special this band is at their best. As a group whose debut album, August and Everything After, sold over 15 million copies, was released to such widespread critical acclaim in 1991, and was easily their most commercially successful offering ever, they are one of the few bands that still exist, let alone have a following. They sounded out of time then, with their roots stuck deep in rock's past, where songwriting craft, excellent musicianship, focused production, and wide-ranging aesthetic ambition resulted in carefully constructed, poetic, and sometimes over-thought albums. Not surprisingly, they still sound that way, and that's a good thing....full text |
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| Billboard |
| "I'm just trying to make some sense outta me," Adam Duritz tells us early on in "Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings"—an angsty quest he's stretched across five Counting Crows studio albums. Fortunately, Duritz and company know how to make that conundrum rock with anthemic ferocity or treat it with melodies so plaintive they positively shimmer. All those virtues are intact here, a concept piece of sorts on which the first, hard-rocking half of the album revels in sin, or at least sinful intent, and the second exhibits the contrition of Sunday morning. The band stretches out in some new directions on the trance-y "Washington Square" and incorporates psychedelic overtones into "Insignificant" and "Le Ballet d'Or....full text |
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| Courant |
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It’s been more than five years since Counting Crows released a new studio album, and frankly, 2002’s “Hard Candy” wasn’t all that memorable. This time, they mean it. In fact, Adam Duritz and company haven’t sounded so committed, so determined, so tuneful, in years. “Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings” is a sprawling 14-song album divided between the two extremes in the title: The first half chronicles decadent, self-destructive behavior, and the second deals with emotional and physical recuperation in the aftermath....full text |
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