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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Ripley Johnson's country rock project Rose City Band was mixed by Colin Stewart.
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  1. Uncut
    Jan 24, 2025
    90
    Just gorgeous. [Jan 2025, p.40]
  2. Mojo
    Jan 24, 2025
    80
    It's yet another beauty. [Mar 2025, p.93]
  3. Jan 24, 2025
    80
    On the first few spins, the songs and ideas here don't seem to stray terribly far from the path worn by previous Rose City Band albums, but the heightened production and detours into previously untraveled styles all slowly contribute to this chapter being both a continuation and a gentle expansion of Johnson's warped, beautiful, and ongoing vision of space-age country music.
  4. Jan 24, 2025
    70
    A daring concept album is no easy task to take on, let alone execute, and while these ten songs can sometimes feel disconnected, Sol Y Sombra is far from an album to overlook.
  5. Jan 30, 2025
    70
    These guys offer something milder in an attempt to remind us that sometimes less is more. It serves as a nice backdrop for afternoons baking in the sun or just getting baked anywhere for that matter.