★★★★★
Nathaniel Rateliff has a voice that has been lived in. Not the wracked pantomime of a Tom Waits-showground-backwoods-hobo, but a voice that has nonetheless been weathered, battered; whose owner has stayed up too late doing too many fun things. It is with warmth and oak-aged mellowness that his rusty pipes tackle this collection of bruised acoustic songs...
- www.musicomh.com
2014-01-18
★★★★★
Hangdog inferiority ... Nathaniel Rateliff Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Nathaniel RateliffFalling Faster Than You Can RunMod y Vi Records2014 There's a lonely whippoorwill feel to Nathaniel Rateliff's second album, as though he wrote it all in a woodland clearing near the log cabin home of Bon Iver's For Emma, Forever Ago...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-01-17
★★★★★
The paradigm of heartbreak shifted in one fell swoop when Bon Iver turned towards the country. Suddenly, all manner of bearded troubadours were packing their bags and heading out to a shotgun shack, yet Justin Vernon probably spent four days sitting in a freezing log cabin before he learned how to make a fire. Hell, the poor boy only had a sophomoric approximation of the blues, something best cured with a good night out and a bacon buttie in the morning...
- www.clashmusic.com
2014-01-18
★★★★★
If you appreciate Lambchop's mellow mordancy, you'll like , the 31-year-old from Bay, Missouri (population: 60) who has been living in Colorado since he was 19. Judging by the contents of his debut album, he's hardly been whooping it up there: In Memory of Loss is a feast of wry introspection, the titles - Longing and Losing, Whimper and Wail, We Never Win - speaking volumes about the mood of droll self-regard...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
It takes some confidence for an artist only 16 months into their professional career to make an album as sparse and gentle as In Memory Of Loss. Yet Denver-by-way-of-Missouri songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff's laid back vocals ooze with easy going charm. Comparisons to the likes of M Ward and Bill Callahan are on the money and it's no surprise that he has toured with Bon Iver and The Low Anthem, and that producer Brian Deck has worked with Iron & Wine...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-03-07
★★★★★
Nathaniel Rateliff's deep voice and the weighty silence he puts between each word he sings gives the deceptive impression that he is a heavy dude that knows what he's doing. But his lyrics tell a different story. He's more the puzzled boy than the severe father, the Isaac more than Abraham on such songs as "A Lamb on the Stone" and "Longing and Losing". He's looking for peace of mind...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Perhaps more than any other genre, country music has cast a wide net and because of that folk, bluegrass and roots rock are often blended into the Americana subgenre. Singer/songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff is an artist that falls nicely into this subgenre with In Memory of Loss, his debut album for Rounder Records. The record kicks off with the soft "Once in a Great While" while "Early Spring Till" recalls stuff from The Swell Season (the duo featured in the Once film)...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
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