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Arrow

Heartless BastardsAudio CD
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Brimming with confidence and creativity, Arrow sees Heartless Bastards pushing their distinctive sound forward with their most eclectic, energetic collection thus far. The album – the Austin, Texas-based band’s first release with Partisan Records – is marked as ever by singer/guitarist/songwriter Erika Wennerstrom’s remarkable voice, at turns primal and pleading, ... Read more in Amazon's Heartless Bastards Store

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  • Audio CD (February 14, 2012)
  • Original Release Date: 2012
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Partisan Records
  • ASIN: B006LEHOOO
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,994 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Erika Wennerstrom has proven herself a natural rock star. --Rolling Stone

With a voice as big and lonesome as the prairie and a mild presence that grows tenfold when she plugs in her guitar…her distinctive caw has a timeless quality. --The New York Times

Breathtaking. --Entertainment Weekly

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On Heartless Bastards new record, Arrow, the eccentric, hypnotic nature of songwriter Erika Wennerstrom's voice is captured by producer Jim Eno (Spoon) who helps blend the bands driving, straight-forward Rock 'N' Roll into a record that sounds unique and refreshing. Arrow instantly feels fearless and marks a major step forward for a band who continues develop with every release. Thanks to support from the likes of David Letterman, NPR, and a cameo appearance in the hit NBC show Friday Night Lights, Heartless Bastards show no sign of slowing down. Their past three albums have consecutive increases in sales from 20K(Stairs and Elevators) to 30K(All This Time) to 40K (The Mountain). Early press feedback has been unanimously positive, the most common response is that of Arrow being the Heartless Bastards career-defining record. Perhaps most exciting are the early indicators at radio, with WXPN, KCRW, WFPK, WFUV, KUT, and KXT already adding the record to their rotation

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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4.7 out of 5 stars
In all, "Arrow" is the best and most satisfying album of the Bastards to date, period. Paul Allaer  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
This is a good album, with three great songs, and some good ones. Jorge A. RAMIREZ LEON  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars DEAR MUSIC APPRECIATORS February 14, 2012
Format:Audio CD
Dear Music Appreciators,

For true music fans, discovering a great new band can be a little like falling in love. No matter how rewarding a relationship becomes over time, there's nothing quite like those first few months of discovering each other and feeling like you want to know everything about the other person. After hearing the new album by Heartless Bastards (my first), I think I just may have a thing for this band.

When I first heard/saw pictures of lead singer Erika Wennerstrom for some reason I thought of Karin Bergquist of Over The Rhine - funny to later find out both bands come from Ohio - maybe there's some shared blonde/female Ohioian lead-singer vibe emanating from the both of them...although the music they play is quite different.

Heartless Bastards, for example, seems to be a red-blooded American rock band through and through. As a newbie fan I can't help but compare them to other bands in my collection. I hear similarities to The Stone Coyotes throughout, as well as the echoes of bands like Screaming Trees ("Simple Feeling"), Led Zeppelin ("Got To Have Rock and Roll"), and Brandi Carlile ("Marathon" and "Parted Ways"). There are countless other apt comparisons I'm sure, but at the end of the day Heartless Bastards sound most like themselves and the point is that this is rock music that sounds heartfelt and authentic and could be colored in sepia tones and sent to live on a record album from the 1970's.

The slow rock crescendo of the opening track, the radio friendly catchiness of "Only For You," the conga and acoustic 70's style goodness of "Skin and Bone," the epic seven-and-a-half minute guitar-god closing track "Down In the Canyon...there is, as they say, something for everyone, and I hate to say such an uncritical thing as this, but...it's all good. Really good.

Buy this, and maybe you will have a thing for this band too.

Sincerely,

Constant Listener
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Heartless Bastards maturing, to great effect February 18, 2012
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Heartless Bastards originally hail from Cincinnati, moving to Austin about 4 years ago. Why is this relevevant? Because on their previous album, 2009's "The Mountain", there were some (albeit just occasional) signs and sounds of country-music infiltrating the band's sound, which was rather shocking to me, having seen the band many, many times in their early years here around town and their first 2 albums would've never given us any indication of that. Since then the band, which started as a power-trio, is now a 5 piece. Now, after another three years, comes the band's highly anticipated 4th studio album.

"Arrow" (10 tracks; 52 min.) starts of with a slow-burning "Marathon", showcasing singer-songwriter Erica Wennerstrom's amazing vocals. After that the album settles in nicely. Check out "Got To Have Rock and Roll", reminding us of early HB, just great. The album flows nicely, softer tracks mingling perfectly with harder tracks. This a band that is maturing before our eyes, to great effect. My personal highlight on here is the uptempo, hard-charging "Simple Feeling", again showcasing Wennerstrom's amazing vocals, she is amazing. It all leads up to the closing track, the epic, almost 8 min. track "Down in the Canyon", which captures this album perfectly, a slowly building, heavy track that eventually explodes.

In all, "Arrow" is the best and most satisfying album of the Bastards to date, period. So glad they've abondoned the country-flavors that popped up in "The Mountain" album! I had the good fortune of catching the band this weekend here in Cincinnati on their current tour, and they played many of these songs (and giving plenty of shout-outs to the audience of their beginnings in Cincinnati). "Arrow" is highly recommended!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Heartless Bastards album by far April 5, 2012
Format:Audio CD
Given my leanings (longtime fan of the band), take my review for this album as even more praise than I'm stating - it will certainly be regarded as of the best albums of 2012 when we look back and it can certainly be suggested that this is the strongest release as of yet by this mighty band from Austin, from their origins in Southern Ohio.

I'll let others go through it with a finer-toothed comb, but suffice to say, Erika Wennerstrom's songwriting, like her amazing voice, continues to get stronger, richer and more nuanced - and in the case of ARROW, more risk-taking on the Heartless Bastards' parts is definitely more reward for their fans.

I only choose to highlight "Skin And Bone," from a riff that's straight out of Keith Richard's canon and lyrics Neil Young would envy, it's as great an example of the album's strengths as any, and here's a good spot to mention Jim Eno (from the band Spoon) did an amazing job producing. Erika's singing is so powerful and equally so pure - truly a marvelous thing.

Okay, there's plenty more here and that's your reward - don't sleep on this one; and by the way, their live show is the only thing that matches their recorded output.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Great album.
This album is fantastic. The band is very talented and the vocals are out of this world. The bass is incredible. Overall, a great band with a great album. Read more
Published 1 month ago by autumnorange
5.0 out of 5 stars Neo-retro Classic Fresh Sound
I'm a sucker for a good name so when I saw Heartless Bastards for the first time as an Amazon recommendation, I had to see what they were about. Read more
Published 2 months ago by oldtimer
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Album
I recently started to listen the heartless bastards. After hearing "only for you" I was impacted by the music and by the great voice of the singer. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jorge A. RAMIREZ LEON
5.0 out of 5 stars Great record
I had the opportunity to see the Hearless Bastards this summer at an intimate little music festival in West Texas. It was the perfect backdrop for such a good soulful album. Read more
Published 3 months ago by PookyStew
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Amazing Album
Another amazing album by this band. Erika's haunting voice with the perfect arrangement by these solid musicians is the perfect mix to make a completely enjoyable album. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Greg Heinz
5.0 out of 5 stars great album!!
Erika has a truly unique voice, catchy tunes, the songwriting keeps getting better and better, would highly recommend to anyone!!
Published 3 months ago by Charles Wolf
5.0 out of 5 stars Shot Through The Heart! And these pleasant guys are to blame.
Well I got this on a recommendation and have been blown away, not in a naughty way mind. This is their fourth album and they think it is their best and they are probably right. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Tommy D
5.0 out of 5 stars Blown away!
I'm not an expert music critic but sometimes I just have to Speak up when I've been effected so fully. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kelly
4.0 out of 5 stars A fresh voice for me
I was wandering from stage to stage at Hardly Strictly in SF, and wound up staying for their set without knowing who they were. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lynn Cullivan
5.0 out of 5 stars More solid work in the vein of previous albums.
There's always at least one song to fall in love with on all Heartless Bastards albums. My experience is there's always at least one that's too repetitive for my tastes, too. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Kathryn
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