★★★★★
?????????? Recorded over two days at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, Acoustic at the Ryman showcases the soft, melodic side of Band of Horses. The album is warm and inviting, a reimagining of ten tracks from each of the band's first four albums, with an emphasis placed on the slow crooners from each...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2014-03-11
★★★★★
With four critically lauded LPs behind them, Seattle's Band Of Horses has punctuated its current between-albums break with this new acoustic collection. Recorded over two nights at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in April 2013, the collection plays heavily on the band's folk and country roots, eschewing the heavier stylings of 2012's Mirage Rock.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-02-27
★★★★★
Acoustic at the Ryman comes at a difficult time for fans of these formerly righteous Seattle folk rockers. Band of Horses' debut Everything All The Time, released in 2006 remains a back-to-back classic, a triumph with few worthy rivals in the sometimes hokey ground of contemporary folk. Unfortunately, their subsequent efforts have seen diminishing returns, with each release perishing under the band's own stubborn, grandiose vision...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2014-02-26
★★★★★
Band of Horses have found themselves in a bit of a strange place. As their commercial success has increased their critical success has declined. Sub Pop releases Everything All of the Time and Cease to Begin contained some of the most beloved indie-folk songs of the 2000s, from "The Funeral" to "No One's Gonna Love You". Infinite Arms got a Grammy nod and Mirage Rock gave them a surprise hit in Europe but both albums left a good chunk of old fans feeling out in the cold. So what's a band to do...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-02-21
★★★★★
There are two things that are almost guaranteed once your band reaches a certain degree of career trajectory - a live album and a Greatest Hits release. Eight years into their career, Band of Horses have released the haunting Acoustic at the Ryman, an album that manages to tick both boxes in the best way possible...
- www.theaureview.com
2014-02-17
★★★★★
The red-brick tabernacle on Fifth Avenue in Nashville was built in 1892, but it wasn't known as the Ryman Auditorium until the 1900s, when it was renamed after a local businessman, saloon proprietor, and riverboat captain. It wasn't known for country music, however, until 40 years later: The Grand Ole Opry radio show relocated to that space when it outgrew nearby War Memorial Auditorium...
- pitchfork.com
2014-02-14
★★★★★
Band of Horses seemed to be on the proper path, the one proven successful by so many artists before them: Release small, yet beloved album that attains cult status (Everything All the Time). Follow said album with a slightly more polished effort featuring a no-question-about-it lead single (Cease to Begin's "Is There a Ghost"). Arena tours followed by stadium shows seemed bound to follow for Ben Bridwell and company, but something happened along the way that took them off-track...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-02-14
★★★★★
Band of Horses have always had a folkie core, but it's usually been hidden beneath layers of Nineties guitar noise on their four studio albums. Acoustic at the Ryman, recorded at the historic Nashville venue over two nights last April, replaces the fuzz with piano balladry and complex multipart harmonies. Frontman Ben Bridwell's vocals are perfectly suited to the change-up, as are most of the songs here...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-02-11
★★★★★
There are two kinds of live albums--the ones that aim to capture and preserve precise moments in music history and the ones that serve as social experiments for bands to reinterpret their works in patchwork collections of reinvention. Band of Horses' Acoustic at the Ryman--the band's newest album since 2012's Mirage Rock--falls into the latter category...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2014-02-12
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