xxxALL THAT RECKONING
| Cowboy Junkies
xxxALL THAT RECKONING
All That Reckoning is an album by the Canadian alt-country band Cowboy Junkies, released in 2018. The album features eleven new songs to focus on "empty hearts, empty nests, lost paths, lost lives, and all the reckoning that brings about the end of things, and the beginnings of something else. [The] songs are about reckoning on a personal level and reckoning on a social level," as stated by Michael Timmins. -Wikipedia
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American Songwriter
Perhaps the beauty, sadness, frustration and overall musical and lyrical creativity of All That Reckoning will help widen the Cowboy Junkies’ somewhat limited audience.
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The Quietus
That Cowboy Junkies are still making music this far down the line is to be applauded. That it ranks with the very best of their material deserves nothing less than an ovation.
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Paste Magazine
All That Reckoning proves the Junkies still have insights to offer on our most pressing social issues—if only they’d commit more boldly to exploring their best ideas
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Spill Magazine
With the finely calibrated bluesy riffs and gritty rock sound, All That Reckoning is a brave album from start to finish.
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Uncut
If you lost touch with Cowboy Junkies some time ago, perhaps taking their unhurried grandeur for granted, All That Reckoning presents a brave, beautiful and timely opportunity to pick up the thread.
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The Guardian
a record that is delicate, undemanding, but never too cosy
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AP News
Over 30 years into their career, “All That Reckoning” shows Cowboy Junkies in peak form, adding another inspired, alluring album to their repertoire.
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Folk radio
This timely release, full of darkness and relevance, will surely cement their status as a great band.
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Red Guitar Music
a fantastically produced and immersive experience which I’m sure will continue to reveal more treasures with repeated playbacks
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Kill Beat Music
While the music is characteristically easy to listen to, the songs on “All That Reckoning” are visceral. In true Junkies fashion, the gentleness is juxtaposed with rock that can be jarring.
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All Music
a smart, compelling set of songs from a group that hasn't run out of things to say or the ability to say them with eloquence
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Exclaim
The swirling "All That Reckoning, Part 2" significantly amps up the noise from the civil opener "All That Reckoning, Part 1" while retaining the same level of primal energy, expertly demonstrating what makes All That Reckoning such an essential part of Cowboy Junkies discography.
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Wide Open Country
In this new collection of songs, Cowboy Junkies ruthlessly and methodically take a tally of all that we owe.
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Flood Magazine
The time, for better or worse, is now—and though All That Reckoning can be bruising, it’s also consoling in its candor and its clarity.
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Get Ready to Rock
The album is easy to listen to with every song telling a story, whether that be deep, personal or about society in general.
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Americana Highways
One more, unassailable constant over the 30-some years of the Junkies’ existence – the perfect voice of Margo Timmins.
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Sound Vapors
Whichever is the correct way to put it, this album touches on these issues in a very listenable way. If you are looking for a thinking person’s album, this album is for you.
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National Post
a record that’s instantly accessible, likable and memorable without merely trying to repeat old triumphs
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Glide Magazine
Those that might have thought they’d expand their amplitude will likely be disappointed to find them as dry and sobering as ever, but then again, what with the troubles and travails that have overtaken the world recently, who can blame them for digging that much deeper into their somnolent sound.
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Americana UK
The 11 songs on show here break no new ground and are in the laid back and slightly melancholy style that the band are known for.
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God is in the TV
All That Reckoning isn’t ground-breaking musically for Cowboy Junkies but it’s a really well-produced, self-assured and enjoyable listen that can be played multiple types and one that could have only made by a band with a long rich life experience.
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Red Dirt Report
Again, listening to the record, appropriately titled All This Reckoning, is essentially about just that; all of the reckoning that our society is going to have to face.
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Readings
The beauty of the landscape I am driving through is matched by the beauty of Margo Timmins voice and the familiar songs makes me feel as if I am floating home.
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The Blue Grass Situation
All That Reckoning is all the more surprising for how relevant it sounds, for how well it surveys our current climate, most crucially for how it suggests that the band’s defining traits—the quiet vocals, the erratic guitars, the menacing midtempo jams—are specifically calibrated to speak to this very moment
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Staccatofy
Their songwriting has always been their strong suite and their ability to create a unique musical mood with the music and pointed lyrics unfolds with, All That Reckoning continuing that fine tradition.
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New Whistle
The songs on All That Reckoning appear out of thin air, and hang there begging the listener to give them form. It is mostly a hushed affair, which adds to the overall sense of looking a ghost in the eye, but they know when to turn things up instead of leaving it up to the listener.
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Metro
Such moments might send some of the faithful scurrying for their earplugs, but given the intensity of the subjects, the pitch-black tenor of the lyrics, these cathartic crescendos are well-earned.
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Blabber 'n' Smoke
an album which is indignant regarding the current state of affairs and perhaps the best album the Cowboy Junkies have recorded for some time
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Radio 13
At the outset I said that the band doesn't seem to have moved far along in 30 years but what they do works well. With some with clever new arrangements and endless cache of headlines to snap up this is a considered and timely release and a solid listen.
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The Arts Fuse
With a group this adroit and emotionally complicated, there always seems to be more to be reckoned with.
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mxdwn.com
The strength of this group has always been and continues to be their consistent artistic voice as a quartet. In, All That Reckoning, this united voice has something to say about the world we live in: in all its beauty and disarray.
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We Are Cult
By holding that mirror up to all of us – and doing so with such eloquence – the Cowboy Junkies have made All That Reckoning a bold and timely statement on the politics of existence.
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The Green Man Review
Times like these are what we need folksingers for, and these Cowboy Junkies have stepped up with a timely offering.
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Folking
Michael Timmins describes Al That Reckoning as being deeper and more complete than anything Cowboy Junkies have done before. I can’t help but agree with him.
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Mother Jones
ranks among the band’s best, reaffirming the subtle vitality of their familiar lulling sound, along with offering a few arresting wrinkles
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The Rocking Magpie
the stark lyrics come at you like the suns rays through a Summer fog
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Irish News
Vocalist Margo Timmins's delicate vocals float over the sparse sonic frontier, firmly lassoing the listener's attention upon her every word.
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Nicholas Jennings
Even at its quietest, as on “Mountain Stream,” the Junkies still pack a wallop, thanks to the band’s palpable passion and Margo’s entrancing vocals.
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