★★★★★
As everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Conor Oberst will tell you, writing a political song is not for the faint of heart, as there is no quicker route to looking like an amateur than believing you can change the world with a sub-par pop song. And while Los Angeles-by-way-of-Colorado singer/songwriter Patrick Park is certainly no amateur, having earned accolades for the affectingly plaintive melodies and self-searching writing of his 2003 debut, he seems to have spent the last four years trying...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Hollywood has long been referred to as high school with money. The music industry, by comparison, is considered junior high school with money. To me, that's being generous. If anything, the music industry is kindergarten with money. Musicians, grown men and women, throw temper tantrums if their dressing rooms have Aquafina instead of Evian...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
The graduation from punk to roots rock, country, and folk has become somewhat of a natural progression--the liberties afforded by the medium of punk music serving as much-needed practice for the skill more multi-faceted musical endeavors, particularly ones that delve into traditional styles, require. We've seen it in Ryan Adams, who went from making punk music with his first band the Patty Duke Syndrome to alt-country with Whiskeytown and later as a solo act...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Release Date: April 27, 2010 Those of us that miss the ruminative musings of Ryan Adams should focus their collective attention on Colorado singer-songwriter Patrick Park. His fifth album Come What Will sounds so much like Adams in certain places, its downright eerie. But whereas most comparisons can detract from the music itself, this comparison is most assuredly a good thing...
- absolutepunk.net
2010-05-07
★★★★★
The mid-1990s seemed to signal the arrival of a new breed of singer/songwriters, with the always-changing aural pastiche of Beck blending with the forthright angst and bucolic suffocation of Vic Chesnutt and melodic melancholy of Elliott Smith to arguably create the first genuine breakthroughs for those who spend most of their time with acoustic guitars and notepads since Dylan plugged in...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
★★★★★
With the passing of Elliott Smith, any hope for deliverance from the current crop of ersatz singer-songwriters now seems utterly lost. And while he's not nearly as hopelessly morose nor as melodically inventive as the now fallen master of mope-pop, Patrick Park is one of the rare artists that manages to speak with his own voice from the first time he opens his mouth; and Loneliness Knows My Name is a powerful statement of intent...
- tinymixtapes.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The graduation from punk to roots rock, country, and folk has become somewhat of a natural progressionthe liberties afforded by the medium of punk music serving as much-needed practice for the skill more multi-faceted musical endeavors, particularly ones that delve into traditional styles, require. We've seen it in Ryan Adams, who went from making punk music with his first band the Patty Duke Syndrome to alt-country with Whiskeytown and later as a solo act. Well before Adams was John Doe of s...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Hollywood has long been referred to as high school with money. The music industry, by comparison, is considered junior high school with money. To me, that's being generous. If anything, the music industry is kindergarten with money. Musicians, grown men and women, throw temper tantrums if their dressing rooms have Aquafina instead of Evian...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-20
★★★★★
Hollywood has long been referred to as high school with money. The music industry, by comparison, is considered junior high school with money. To me, that's being generous. If anything, the music industry is kindergarten with money. Musicians, grown men and women, throw temper tantrums if their dressing rooms have Aquafina instead of Evian...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-11-11
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