★★★★★
March 7, 2014
Toronto's Doug Paisley makes deceptively gentle music, full of sweet country-rock melodies and dark poetry. "The future's burning brightly, but it won't last," he sings on "It's Not Too Late (To Say Goodbye)," echoing Harvest-era Neil Young. The Band's Garth Hudson - a key player on Paisley's last LP - returns, with organ clouds that conjure clapboard churches and circus tents...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-03-08
★★★★★
The Canadian crooner returns. Now with added Garth Hudson and Mary Margaret O'Hara... There's something about Doug Paisley that defies categorisation. Generally, the Toronto-based singer is filed as a throwback to the singer-songwriters of the early 1970s, though the fact that his tunes arrive with a twang makes it tempting to see him as a country artist...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-02-25
★★★★★
Doug Paisley, by virtue of his relatively plain sound, poses a small conundrum. Really, he's just an unvarnished country everyman, his music plaintive enough that it need not be studied particularly closely. Understand that Paisley, a lefty from Toronto with no biological relation to Brad, builds just from guitar and voice...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-02-15
★★★★★
Doug Paisley's third solo outing Strong Feelings, finds him with a more up-beat and rhythmic band accompaniment than his self-titled debut and its follow up Constant Companion. Garth Hudson of The Band provides keyboards, and Mary Margaret O'Hara makes a couple of delightfully impressionistic vocal appearances, alongside many other stalwarts of the Toronto music scene...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2014-02-08
★★★★★
You could never accuse Doug Paisley of not being self-aware. He calls his new album, Strong Feelings, "just 10 new songs," and if this feels like understatement, well, the Toronto singer-songwriter is the understated type. His folk-rock records, especially 2010's Constant Companion, have quietly garnered praise, and with good reason...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-01-30
★★★★★
DOUG PAISLEY - Strong Feelings
Album:
Strong Feelings
Artist: Doug Paisley
Label: No Quarter
Release Date: January 21, 2014
www.noquarter.net
BY LEE ZIMMERMAN
Sweet, concise and flush with emotional effervescence, the ten tunes that adorn Doug Paisley's brilliant third album further affirm the fact that this savvy singer/songwriter may well be pop's next great hope...
- blurtonline.com
2014-01-22
★★★★★
Doug Paisley is one of the finest, fastest pickers in Toronto. But the singer/songwriter refrains from letting his fingers fly all over his third album. Instead, front and centre are the songs themselves: concise, minimalist downtempo country, replete with Garth Hudson's warm, whirring organ lines and stories about relationship regrets, uncertainties and quiet satisfactions.
All 10 are thoughtful and gentle, presented with little embellishment and zero pretense...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2014-01-22
★★★★★
For Doug Paisley, a tender-hearted stoic from Toronto whose songs land on the sweet spot between Kris Kristofferson and Gordon Lightfoot, the language of country music puts poetry into the mundane heartbreaks and setbacks of daily existence. On his third album Strong Feelings, Paisley seeks refuge in the beauty of the romantic lyrical metaphors that have populated the genre since at least the heyday of Hank Williams...
- pitchfork.com
2014-01-21
★★★★★
"Alt-county" has always been something of a misnomer. Ever since Uncle Tupelo came stomping through the gates with a doublewide full of overdrive and twang, it's always been more about "alt" than "country." Listen to an Old 97s or Whiskeytown album, and you'll hear the influence of Johnny Cash or Merle Haggard, but you're just as likely to hear that of The Replacements, or alt-country's most direct ancestor, Neil Young...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-01-18
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