The Guardian

This one is taken from The Guardian....

"Counting Crows' debut, August And Everything After, was a small masterpiece of fragile introspection. It was full of spaces and silence and overpowered you stealthily. For this belated follow-up, they've recruited producer Gil Norton and concocted a bigger, rockier and altogether more conventional sound, dissipating most of their original charm. Angels of The Silences, for instance, is dismally reminiscent of Thin Lizzy (the horror!), while Children In Bloom is bad Pearl Jam and Have You Seen Me Lately? is just bad. Consequently, when singer Adam Duritz goes hushed and croaky, first-album style, on a tune like Miller's Angels, you can't believe he means it. Shame really."
** (mediocre)

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