★★★★★
The Weeks are associated with the American South and sing about it throughout their second full-length album. But their brand of Southern rock isn't about big, brash guitars and long-winded jams. The early-20-something Jackson, Mississippi, band bring the Counting Crows to mind more often, due to Cyle Barnes's voice. Think Adam Duritz's baritone earnestness. If you can get past that, the Weeks are also much more musically interesting and darker than your average boogie band...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-08-01
★★★★★
The Weeks' debut, Comeback Cadillac, injects Southern influences into common garage rock. Breathes of blue grass and country don't quite bring this album to life. The few head nodding heavy steppers are cramped by cliché acoustic ballads and dry musicianship. The bright spot in this young Mississippi band is singer Cyle Barnes. Most tracks live and die by his performance. When Barnes is on, everything is a little better. But when he's bored, everyone suffers...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-11-14
★★★★★
The first thing we thought when we threw this one, was that these guys remind us quite a bit of the Rock-A-Teens, which is never a bad thing. They have the same sort of Southern gothic swagger, thick reverbed guitars, yowled throaty vocals, a little Southern rock, a little rockabilly, but jammed into more of a noise rock sound...
- www.aquariusrecords.org
2009-06-05
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