★★★★★
Are you hydrated? Bubblegum is one of two new albums from singer/songwriter Kevin Devine and his eighth studio album. After making his Kickstarter campaign goal of $50,000 in less than one day and raking up $114,000 by the end of it, Devine made good on his promise to put out two records. Bulldozer, a solo record produced by Rob Schnapf, smashingly continued with Devine's refined blend of folk/rock, but Bubblegum has Devine driving into some new territory...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-10-26
★★★★★
Kevin Devine is going it alone these days. Not musically, so much, as he's never short of collaborators to tag in and out of his various efforts. But, in just about every other respect, he's operating largely as a one-man operation. He's releasing his own music through his newly-minted Devinyl Records imprint, crowdsourcing via Kickstarter to fund the release of his records, and even doing the lion's share of the legwork on the promotional front...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-10-26
★★★★★
After a rapidly successful Kickstarter campaign, Kevin Devine has released two albums-- Bulldozer and Bubblegum. Bubblegum is a full-band record with The Goddamn Band and Brand New's Jesse Lacey in the producer's chair, but that's a different story. For Bulldozer (his seventh studio album), Devine partnered with Rob Schnapf, who produced his 2006 record Put Your Ghost To Rest (as well as landmark albums from artists such as Beck, Dr. Dog and Elliott Smith)...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-10-26
★★★★★
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Kevin Devine - BulldozerKevin Devine- BulldozerRelease Date: October15, 2013
Record Label: Devinyl Records
When Kevin Devine sang "And if you really go and reinstate the draft, you'll straight away just split the country straight in half," on 2005's "No Time Flat," there was an electric charge behind it; a tension that continues to make your heart rise in your throat even though we're far removed...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-10-16
★★★★★
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Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band - BubblegumKevin Devine & The Goddamn Band - BubblegumRelease Date: October 15, 2013
Record Label: Devinyl Records
"If you're angry/well, I'm angry, too."
A portrait of George Washington disintegrating before your very eyes - a striking, if not haunting, imagery that first draws your attention to Kevin Devine's eighth full-length, Bubblegum...
- www.absolutepunk.net
2013-10-16
★★★★★
When Kevin Devine sang "And if you really go and reinstate the draft, you'll straight away just split the country straight in half," on 2005's "No Time Flat," there was an electric charge behind it; a tension that continues to make your heart rise in your throat even though we're far removed from the absurd political climate that the song was written in. All this over a meandering, sleepy strum of a guitar, with Devine hardly even raising his voice or changing his tone...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-10-16
★★★★★
Thirty-three-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kevin Devine is releasing not one but two new albums, and simultaneously to boot. One, Bulldozer, is a solo effort recorded in LA produced by Elliott Smith collaborator Rob Schnapf, and the other, Bubblegum, a full band effort with support from his Goddamn Band...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-10-11
★★★★★
In song, 33-year-old Kevin Devine calls himself "a non-starter never-was has-been since 2008." In life, he's a Kickstarter, leveraging a decade in the indie-rock trenches to fan-fund two good new albums: Bubblegum is the noise-pop one; Bulldozer is the articulate singer-songwriter one, produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith). Devine takes on gentrification ("Now: Navigate!") and writes with resilient empathy about Hurricane Sandy ("From Here")...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-10-09
★★★★★
Summary: A lesson in consistency 7 of 7 thought this review was well written Remember the long lost days of throwing a baseball around with your father at the neighborhood ballpark? You'd start off with a casual catch, dad's eyes twinkling at your ever-improving form. Then it was onto infield practice, the perfect excuse to get dirty whilst trying to imitate the sprawling web-gems of your favorite major-leaguers...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-10-31
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