The reviews of Good Times Comin' are coming in:
—The Portland Phoenix: "The Molenes have taken the mother tongue of American roots music and shown once again they are utterly fluent." (Sam Pfeifle)
—The Boston Globe: "A Stones-meets-Son Volt gem." (Jonathan Perry)
—Spotlight Magazine: "Sounds like the product of a fiery jam session between Uncle Tupelo and ZZ Top where a case of Bud and a bottle of Jack are being shared liberally." (Chris Hislop)
—The Patriot-Ledger: "The album you knew they had in them." (Chad Berndtson)
"Rock'n'roll with twang." is the way The Molenes themselves will generally describe their music when pressed, but sometimes hearing the word elsewhere cuts more to the heart of it.
"Every once in a while a great record will come along with so little fanfare, you'd almost think the artist was intentionally masking its release to keep the beauty all to themselves. 'This Car Is Big' is a melding of rockabilly, country, gospel and roots. More descriptively, it's pure grease monkey rock armed with turquoise tail fins and Vaseline hair-dos. It bears the innocence of Whiskeytown's 'Faithless Street,' the wide-swing tremolo of X's 'Los Angeles,' and the simplicity of Springsteen's 'Nebraska,' complete with haunting harmonicas and earthquake whammy bar groans."
–Martin England, Herald Spotlight
"This is a solid dose of top down, windows open, dirt road kind of Americana. The best thing about this disc is that you can hum along to most of the songs after just one listen, but each subsequent spin reveals more than was initially apparent. There's an appealing twang to the guitars of Dave Hunter and Tom Ferry, and Dave's voice has an appropriate worn-in feel. This is unquestionably a winner." -Kevin Finn, The Noise (Boston)
"The Seacoast Scene can lay claim to a hotbed of roots rock, so when two of its leading members agree on the next big band, you might want to pay attention."
–Sam Pfeifle, Portland Phoenix
(Full Spotlight review here.)
The Molenes is the brainchild of Dave Hunter (vocals/guitars/songs), a midwestern native who eventually found his way to the Northeastern seacoast via London, England, to hook up with Andrew Russell (bass & vocals), Zach Field (drums), and Cartwright Thompson (pedal-steel guitar), and other occasional guests. The band's debut full-length CD, This Car Is Big, was released Sept 26 2006, and their latest, Songs of Sin and Redemption, came out May 6 2008. You can purchase the CDs from CD Baby or walk into Bull Moose Music stores in the Northeast to take it away. Also available from iTunes , and other digital outlets. The Molenes have been named a "River Rising Star" by WXRV 92.5 The River, and have been played on rotation on more than 150 radio stations around the USA, including WUMB 91.9 FM and WMBR 88.1 FM (Boston, MA), WUNH (Durham, NH), WCLZ 98.1 FM, WBLM 102.1 FM, and WPOR (Portland, ME), WSCA 106.1 (Portsmouth, NH), NHPR (NH, MA, ME), WXOJ 103.3 FM (Northampton, MA), WMPBN (Maine's NPR stations). Request them soon at a fine broadcasting establishment near you.
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