★★★★★
A lot has happened to John McCauley since Deer Tick's last effort in 2011. The singer/guitarist saw his father head to the Big House, called off his engagement and partied excessively, leading to a dark foray into drugs and alcohol. Despite his personal maladies, the one thing McCauley can be counted on is to draw inspiration from his personal despair...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-11-07
★★★★★
DEER TICK - Negativity
Album:
Negativity
Artist: Deer Tick
Label: Partisan
Release Date: September 24, 2013
www.partisanrecords.com
BY JOHN B. MOORE
A pretty strong step away from their freewheeling last record (Divine Providence), Deer Tick's fifth and latest offering is a tad darker and surprisingly personal compared to earlier efforts...
- blurtonline.com
2013-11-01
★★★★★
?????????? Over the course of a career, most artists and musicians go through multiple phases in their approach to the craft. The shifting nature of the business and the turbulent lifestyle it requires tend to bring fluctuating levels of focus to artists' perspectives and personas. Some play the comedown machine, bringing their raucous behaviors and indulgences down to haunting, minimalist odes to despair and regret...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-09-30
★★★★★
Deer Tick has forever been torn between wayward adolescence and thoughtful introspection. On the one hand, the Providence outfit has an unquenchable appetite for a boozy, drug-riddled good time, which while fun shouldn't take away from the fact that frontman John McCauley can write open, heart-on-sleeve rockers and ballads with just about anyone in his musical neighborhood...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-09-29
★★★★★
Deer Tick have grown. After a slew of alcohol-drenched offerings big on chaos and low on introspection, the Rhode Island alt-country outlaws' fifth album is a leap forward musically and emotionally. Songs are focused, multi-layered and crafted, sometimes even bringing Wilco's more experimental moments to mind. But does maturity suit Deer Tick...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-09-26
★★★★★
Deer Tick have grown. After a slew of alcohol-drenched offerings big on chaos and low on introspection, the Rhode Island alt-country outlaws' fifth album is a leap forward musically and emotionally. Songs are focused, multi-layered and crafted, sometimes even bringing Wilco's more experimental moments to mind.
But does maturity suit Deer Tick...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
Tweet A Positive Performance Though it may not have looked like it at SXSW, John McCauley is in relative crisis. It's the kind that makes you write sweeping, haunting ballads of the parallel realities where McCauley's ex isn't opening for his curated showcase but singing alongside the Deer Tick frontman. Nicki Darlin and the rest of Those Darlins delivered a commanding performance before McCauley took the stage with a barrage of special guests during the Red Bull Sound Select...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-09-26
★★★★★
Titling their fifth album may seem like a deliberately provocative move, but it's entirely in keeping with the career trajectory of this Providence, RI five-piece. Deer Tick's driving force, John McCauley, has consciously joined the chain of hard-luck, hard-living American singer-songwriters, and is fuelled by what McCauley has described as his of 2012...
- exclaim.ca
2013-10-01
★★★★★
Deer Tick's 2008 album War Elephant presented a disparate and promising set of ideas the best of which cohered effectively on the following year's Born on Flag Day. Both hard-driven and crafted, that 2009 offering conveyed the sense of purpose and direction that presented John McCauley's songwriting skills to full effect.
The Providence R.I. band's live performances had brought a confidence that never teetered into arrogance...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-09-25
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