UK
Press:
Mojo - September
issue mojo rising article
NME - 8/10 "Back
in the days before career advisers, call centres and moronic restart
officers - when our youth were allowed to dream..."
Q Magazine - 4/5 "cranking
up the rock action and playing the kind of tough, poetic vignettes
Shane McGowan used to write with the Pogues."
BBC Collective - Adam
Stephens and Tyson Vogel are not interested in homage or replication,
but rather in channelling the spirits of the sea shanty, the bar-room
ballad and the freight-train lament through alt rock and hardcore.
Chord Magazine - "What
the Toll Tells, the second album from San Francisco's Two Gallants,
is a charming little monster of a record that I guarantee you are
not entirely ready for."
Gigwise - "If
the Two Gallants continue at this pace, they will soon be the band
you wish you’d seen in support of these early albums."
MusicOMH -
"Four songs top eight minutes, the vocals catch on tobacco
phlegm and it sounds like no other music."
Hot Press - "This
is music with a clear understanding of where it sits in the grand
scheme of things"
Leeds Music Scene - "in
a different reality the second album from San Francisco duo Two
Gallants looks set to be, at very least, the underground smash of
2006."
The Downloader - "Two
Gallants are the kind of band you wait ten years for."
Angry Ape - "Overall
the Two Gallants have produced an album of diversity and note, another
feather in the Saddle Creek cap and another band attempting to get
the world to listen."
The Independent - "a
rollicking, rumbustious folk duo whose reinvention of traditional
Americana modes sounds utterly authentic, thanks in no small part
to their decision to deliver songs with the rowdy punk spirit of
The Pogues or The Boggs."
US Press
Nylon Mag Feature -
"...two gallants have made one of the most evocative, beautiful
rock n roll records to emerge in a long time."
Vice Review - 9/10 ....escaped
the wrath of Vice, barely.
Mesh SF Interview -
"I think you guys write awesome drinking songs."
Jambase Interview - "That's
not to say that their music lacks sensitivity or intellect because
it most certainly incorporates both, but more often than not it's
meant to make you think and often makes you bleed."
Surfing Mag Interview - "Sounds
like rock n roll to us"
I See Sound - "man,
it’s so damn good. It starts and ends with this whistling
wind sound. And it tells the best jail story since Johnny Cash sang
about listening to the train from Folsom Prison."
Call Me Mickey - "I
want to talk at a bit of length about why Two Gallants is an amazing
entity.. Distinctly Americana, but punk rock enough to feel connected
to the hearts and minds of a younger generation..."
The Skinny - "They
do not slump into their sophomore album – no, they crash through
it, banging and booming, yelling and yearning."
Room Thirteen - "In
this harsh and unconventional brand of storytelling, the steely
guitar and howling vocals seem to cut the tales free and they take
on their own lives, captivating the listener."
Germany:
Visions - "Räudiger
Bob Dylan, gemischt mit der direkten Intensität von 30er Jahre
Blues-Veteranen wie Skip James, dem betrunkenen Charme der Pogues
und der Punk-Energie Patti Smiths."
Denmark:
Soundvenue - page
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DR P3 - page
1
Japan:
Rockin On - page
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Cookie Scene - page
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Crossbeat - page
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Drum Magazine - page
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Music Magazine - page
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Snoozer Magazine - page
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