★★★★★
Usually when I go to a show, I just want to drink a couple of beers and enjoy myself without going through the trouble of taking notes and writing a review. Sometimes the show is so compelling that I feel the need to share it anyway. Such is the case with Slim Cessna's Auto Club. I went to the show at The Pyramid Scheme in downtown Grand Rapids on Monday May 18th on a whim...
- www.punknews.org
2015-05-23
★★★★★
I haven't had an experience listening to a new band for the first time like this in quite a while. Maybe the onus is on me, but a lot of new music that comes my way can usually be pretty easily put into a genre box or series of sub-genre boxes: this is punk, that's folk, this here's folk punk, this is hardcore, etc. My brain now automatically registers new music by genre immediately on first listen...
- www.punknews.org
2015-06-01
★★★★★
It's been nearly three years since we last heard from Slim Cessna's Auto Club, that most inimitable band of misfits and miscreants. Well loved for their live show, a twisted, often raucous and rowdy take on fire and brimstone tent revivals, the Auto Club's songs have always mixed killer instrumentation with haunting and haunted vocals...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Slim Cessna's Auto Club's 2008 release Cipher was one of my favorites of that year. I still don't quite know how to describe the Denver band but words like Southern gothic, primal folk, old timey gospel, and Americana noir come to mind. The band's twangy songs are full of the stuff of legend - brawlers and drunkards, places with strange histories and strange energies, and, of course, a dash of heartbreak and salvation...
- www.adequacy.net
2010-03-26
★★★★★
It's been a while since we've heard from Slim Cessna, whose Auto Club remain to this day one of our favorite bands of country punks, along with Munly, Slim's partner in musical crime. We were under the impression that maybe SCAC were no more, which could still be true (and which would make us very very sad) as this is in fact not a new record, but is a collection of B-sides, unreleased tracks and odds and ends, from the beginning of this century...
- aquariusrecords.org
2010-03-18
★★★★★
Pretty genuine sounding country twang from these Denver boys. Former punk rockers (we think, but aren't they all) kicking out gorgeous twangy classic sounding country rock complete with yodelling, spoken word breakdowns mid song, awesome pedal steel and baritone back up vocals. The vocalist sounds a bit like Jimmie Rodgers, but with a bit more punch. They have that whole 'No Depression' thing going for them, but they are so much better than most of their ND contemporaries...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
God I love this band! Totally rocking, totally catchy punk-rock-flecked country twang. If I had to be stuck in a bar, forever with only one band playing nightly, it would definitely be Slim Cessna's Auto Club. Sonically they bear a striking resemblance to the Old 97's who haven't made a GREAT record for going on 5 years now. And Slim Cessna's voice bears an uncanny similarity to that of the Old 97's Rhett Miller. In fact, let's be honest, this is what the Old 97's SHOULD sound like...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Third album from Denver cowpunks who don't sound punk but you know that in the privacy of their living rooms they treasure their Black Flag and X records. Jello Biafra (who issued this record on his own label), calls Slim Cessna's Auto Club "the country band that plays the bar at the end of the world", and that's pretty accurate. Like Mekons in their honkytonkin' days, or Nick Cave if he went country and started wearing all white silver sequined duds. A little hokey, but very catchy...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
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