★★★★★
Country rock is a genre of music that seems to lean favorably in one direction or the other. The Eagles, arguably the genre's antecedent? They tend to sit comfortably on the rock side of the fence, just with country touches. Any Nu Country music that's being made today? Tends to side with country, just with rock flourishes. But to seamlessly merge the two is a real trick and a treat and that's what makes Nikki Lane's sophomore album, All Or Nothin', so damn disarming...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-07-10
★★★★★
Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach has impressive taste when he chooses female vocalists to produce. From Jessica Lea Mayfield to Grace Potter, Valerie June and now Nikki Lane, he hasn't missed yet. Regardless of the genre, Auerbach is able to bring out the best in these women who, truth be told, have plenty of talent to start with...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-05-10
★★★★★
If Lana Del Ray had pores, bodily fluids or even the rare hair out of place, she might be Nikki Lane, the East Nashville firebrand who understands sangfroid is a lot more explosive when you roughen up the edges and throw down a gauntlet. Dressed like Evel Knievel's stunning distaff doppelganger on the cover of All or Nothin', Lane defies convention with a record that evokes Dusty Springfield, Loretta Lynn and Jackie DeShannon over a dozen songs that read like Polaroids from a wild heart gone...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2014-05-07
★★★★★
Shots are fired on Nikki Lane's sophomore album All Or Nothin' . Whether it's in the blatant, stinging list of flaws that underlies the demands of "Man Up," or the fierce, feigned indifference of "You Can't Talk To Me Like That," Lane is all blazing guns and smoke. An East Nashville backwoods beauty who runs her own vintage store as a side hustle, Lane is unafraid to buck expectations...
- www.avclub.com
2014-05-06
★★★★★
"It's always the right time," recommends alt-Nashville rocker Nikki Lane, "to do the wrong thing." On this record full of stories about what happens when you follow this kind of advice, Lane serves as a pretty dynamite guide through the broken hearts and bottles that litter the ground. Her '60s girl-group delivery is a natural fit for the kind of soulful garage rock production brought to the table by the Black Keys' Dan Auerbach (who, apparently, is producing pretty much everything made by...
- exclaim.ca
2014-05-06
★★★★★
Nikki Lane's story is peppered with Americana clichés. She left home as a high school dropout and travelled west to be a star. After a move to NYC and a failed relationship with a country singer, who left her to record an album in Alabama, Lane took out her guitar and eventually penned her second album, Walk of Shame. A life of clichés begets an album of clichés though, but this doesn't mean Walk of Shame doesn't revel in its saccharine qualities...
- exclaim.ca
2011-10-27
★★★★★
There's grit and Southern warmth to Nikki Lane's country twang; it's no surprise the South Carolina native cites Waylon Jennings and Loretta Lynn as inspirations. An outlaw on her terms, Lane isn't going against the grain because she crafts a form of country that's reckless and edgy ? the calculated kind network talent programs churn out...
- exclaim.ca
2011-10-20
★★★★★
It's rare to hear a Southern belle poeticizing the woes of hard drinking, one-night stands, and troublemaking, but Nikki Lane proves she's not your average country sweetheart on this impressive debut. Throughout tales of recklessness and morning-after contrition, calling out lying lovers and giving in to wanderlust, Lane works her own brand of noir Americana blending old-school country elements with gothy rock guitars and girl-group choruses...
- filtermagazine.com
2011-10-03
★★★★★
This South Carolina-born, Nashville-based singer-songwriter's second album is an impressive set of noirish country-pop steeped in '60s girl groups, classic country, surf and garage-rock, with a reverb-drenched sound blending spaghetti western guitars, atmospheric pedal steel and haunting organ to accompany Lane's sultry Southern vocals and frank lyrics of leaving, longing and self-destruction.
- kexp.org
2011-09-19
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