It incorporates the aesthetic of all of their previous efforts into their best production yet.  Full text...

The twelve songs of Fort Recovery find Johnson and his bandmates calm, confident, and brimming with relaxed enthusiasm.  Full text...

Centro-Matic's new album Fort Recovery surrounds Will Johnson's poetic phrases with fuzzy guitars and clattering rhythms, evoking the tug between the accelerating pace of society and the pleasure of sitting motionless on a hot Texas day.  Full text...

It feels as if Johnson took his best songs to his band mates and decided to make a great record not just a great Centro-matic record.  Full text...

This is a great album, maybe not quite as instant and likeable as Love You Just The Same but Will Johnson should be commended for his consistency.  Full text...

‘Fort Recovery’ is a masterful album, beautifully crafted from all the misshapes, rags and bones of an artist in total control of their game.  Full text...

Fort Recovery is great for the times when you want to put on an album that doesn’t require dissection on every song; the downside is that it doesn’t grab you and demand your attention.  Full text...

Low-key, well-crafted, literate, Fort Recovery seems, for its first half, to be destined for the "done" pile – records too good to trade in but not quite great enough to play on your own time.  Full text...

Whereas previous Centro-matic albums had a certain stark and ragged bitterness to them, Fort Recovery has a sense of acceptance in the continued reality of hard living, tough drinking, fractured aspirations and tumultuous love.  Full text...