"You
could argue that the Truckers should have revved
up this Skynyrd side more often. But instead they
let the songwriting speak for itself, and it sings
loud and clear."
- Rolling Stone
"Brighter Than
Creation's Dark may be the Truckers best and most expansive
album since Southern Rock Opera."
- Paste Magazine
"As guys wrestle
with the encroaching responsibilities of work and family,
they still often romanticize or cling to their shit-kicking
youth; the Drive-By Truckers' principal songwriters,
Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley, represent each side
of this coin. Using the broadest strokes imaginable,
gravelly and grizzly Hood is the endlessly vigilant,
fiercely protective papa bear, while laconic slick-talker
Cooley the hell-raising, yarn-spinning f-up."
- Pitchfork
"It's one of
several brilliant moments on Brighter Than Creation's
Dark, and less than three weeks into 2008 it's hard
not to escape the feeling that with this disc we may
already have the best album of the year."
- All Music
"Brighter Than
Creation's Dark is a tour de force that easily earns
its praise and rings out as classically as any classic
rock album."
- Lostatsea.net
"Marriages, divorces,
line-up changes, good times, bad times - nothing can
derail the rock 'n' roll juggernaut that is the Drive-By
Truckers."
- Austin American Statesman |
