★★★★★
Nashville brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall want the simple things in life: to hang out with friends, to drink a ton of beer and, oh yeah, a handle on their lives and relationships. Hypnotic Nights, JEFF the Brotherhood's sixth full-length album, aptly describes the frustration and restlessness that comes with getting older. Here, the duo shows maturation musically and lyrically, albeit wildly, proving that they are true, spirited forces to be reckoned with.
- filtermagazine.com
2012-08-06
★★★★★
JEFF The Brotherhood graduates to a major label with the new Hypnotic Nights, but even with an assist from Black Keys guitarist (and increasingly in-demand producer) Dan Auerbach, the Nashville sludge-pop duo hardly seems to have changed at all...
- www.avclub.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
Just over a year after dropping We Are the Champions, Nashville duo JEFF the Brotherhood try out their new deal with corporate behemoth Warner, delivering Hypnotic Nights (not to be confused with last month's Hypnotic Knights EP, all four songs of which appear here). Despite the heavy-hitting financial backing, the brothers don't really bother to switch anything up ? any of these tracks could have appeared on either of their last two albums...
- exclaim.ca
2012-07-19
★★★★★
When word came down that Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach was going to be behind the controls of the new Jeff The Brotherhood album, the hope was that he would bring back in some of the garage rock looseness that marked the band's earliest work but has been systematically chipped away over the years. Alas, the Orrall brothers have instead doubled down on a sleek commercialized sound sure to appease their new corporate overlords. (This is the group's first for Warner Bros...
- www.altpress.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
By and large, most of us are raised to root for the good guy. In rock music especially, there's a sharp contrast between the jaded, opinionated star with unsociable tendencies and the all embracing, conciliatory star who'll make it his mission to be loved by all with meaningless emotional poppycock...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-07-16
★★★★★
Fuck! The first minute and forty-five seconds of Hey Friend, the title track from JEFF The Brotherhood's shit kicker of an album We Are The Champions, might be the best thing I have heard this decade. It is a fierce fire starter that brings back the days when guitar players had balls and no shirts as opposed to the all shirts no balls guitar players of today...
- www.syffal.com
2011-10-11
★★★★★
JEFF The Brotherhood is Jake and Jamin Orrall of Nashville, Tennessee, owners of Infinity Cat Recordings. The bare bones duo, just guitar and drums, played 230 shows last year and were hailed by Spin magazine as one of the "must see" acts at this year's South by Southwest. Their new album, We are the Champions, is eleven tracks and a short 35-minute...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2011-09-05
★★★★★
For a couple of dudes who most likely don't spend many of their waking hours without a cold beer or something to smoke nearby, brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall have pretty good heads for business. The bros, sons of Nashville song doctor Robert Ellis Orrall, founded Infinity Cat Recordings while they were still in high school and have been not-so-quietly self-releasing music under the JEFF the Brotherhood moniker for nearly a decade...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-08-08
★★★★★
If the first Jeff The Brotherhood record, Heavy Days, was a glimpse into what remains of good and virtuous in rock 'n' roll, then We Are the Champions is the faux-bumptious statement that confirms this freakish young outfit's absolute grasp on the multi-faceted wonder of the genre. It all starts out with a thick wall of psychedelic sludge in Hey Friend, a sort of acid-drenched proto-Dinosaur Jr...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-07-25
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