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1 Hopeful Rd.

Vintage Trouble

1 Hopeful Rd.

Second album from the LA blues rockers

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5.7

Label
Blue Note Records
UK Release date
14/08/2015
US Release date
14/08/2015
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  1. 7.0 |   Paste Magazine

    As 1 Hopeful Rd. is Vintage Trouble’s first album for Blue Note Records, a noted jazz label, the band’s sophomore LP is notably more contained and reserved
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  2. 7.0 |   Gig Soup

    So whether you are after rollicking, upbeat rock ‘n’ roll or more soulful, reflective blues, 1 Hopeful Rd. has it all
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  3. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    New ground is not being broken, but their passion and energy banishes any risk of Vintage Trouble sounding like a bar band
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  4. 6.0 |   The Irish Times

    Channelling the likes of Otis Redding, James Brown, Wilson Pickett and other soul/blues-era greats, Vintage Trouble righteously funk it up
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  5. 4.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    While you’d expect some real barn-burners from this lot, every twangy slide and soulful croon sounds too damn polished to light any metaphorical fire
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