★★★★★
Former Soul Coughing frontman and current solo artist Mike Doughty released The Book of Drugs, his memoir, in early 2012. It contained stories from across his lifetime, but all anybody wanted him to talk about were the extensive passages in the book that contained his thoughts and feelings about his time in Soul Coughing...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-08-07
★★★★★
?????????? Mike Doughty's latest release, the unwieldy title of which will be abbreviated here as Circles, is much more than a re-hash of Soul Coughing tunes. This is a redemptive, personal album and there's a lengthy and often unnerving back story to how Doughty arrived at this collection of his once-shunned songs...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-10-01
★★★★★
Sebastian Steinberg. Yuval Gabay. Mark De Gli Antoni. These are the three former members of Soul Coughing, the men who Mike Doughty, in his infinite bitterness, could not even bring himself to name in his 2012 memoir, The Book of Drugs. Doughty's attitude towards his former band has always been confusing - he takes credit for almost everything Soul Coughing ever did, yet whines that he never had much creative control over the records...
- thequietus.com
2013-09-29
★★★★★
Mike Doughty has made his disdain for the Soul Coughing-era of his two-decade career well known. But he comes one step closer to accepting his legacy as leader of one of the '90s most innovative and underrated alt-rock acts with the release of his latest solo LP. Funded through PledgeMusic.com, where Doughty reached his goal a quick 16 hours after launching the project, Circles Super Bon Bon.....
- www.relix.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
It's typically a sign of desperation when an artist re-records their own songs that were already hits. But in Mike Doughty's case, he felt he could improve on tunes he originally waxed with his terrific yet under-rated 90s hip-hop, folk, electronica, jazz collective Soul Coughing. And besides, none of them were exactly hits anyway. It's no secret he and the other Coughing members didn't get along, a fact he reported in last year's autobiography The Book of Drugs...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-09-25
★★★★★
Soul Coughing stuck out like a sore thumb amid the onslaught of post-grunge bands that speckled the mid-'90s musical landscape, and while a cursory listen of their music would have perhaps heaped them on the periphery of the ska-punk renaissance, the New York quartet proved time and again to be beyond categorization...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-09-18
★★★★★
Fringe musician Mike Doughty, a John Denver fan? Who knew? Doughty's erratic career has never been logical or predictable. His jazz inflected, hip-hop inspired, folk pop is not for those without a sly, bone dry, self-deprecating sense of humor and genre bending tastes; which is to say, most of the record buying public. But for those willing to follow Doughty wherever his muse leads- whether solo or with a band- it's a fascinating, if not always artistically successful ride...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Mike Doughty is an album releasing machine. In the past 18 months he has released the impeccable Yes and Also Yes and the best live album of 2012, The Question Jar Show. Now, Doughty has found the time to build an album of covers strangely titled The Flip Is Another Honey (a reference taken from a 1956 Variety review of a Jerry Lee Lewis single, meaning "the b-side is also fantastic.") Unlike Doughty's last two releases, however, this one is much more uneven... just like a typical covers album...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Mike Doughty's solo career began haltingly and gradually in the early 2000s, culminating in his major label debut, Haughty Melodic, in 2005. But since he returned with '08's Golden Delicious, Doughty has been increasingly prolific. His new covers album, The Flip is Another Honey, is his sixth album since '08...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-01-07
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