Press:

“Deceptively literate and cool films of romance on all the wrong sides of town...make it recommended listening for anyone who misses the alt-country heyday of the Backsliders and Whiskeytown”
Roy Kasten - Riverfront Times

“At a time when so many bands are busy dicking around with art school interpretations of roots music, trying to reinvent the wheelbarrow and create an avant-garde Americana revolution, it’s refreshing to hear American Aquarium throw a fastball right down the middle. ”
Peter Grumbine - No Depression

“All in all, if you’re going to buy ten albums this year, make damn sure that [Small Town Hymns] is one of them. I’ve had it on repeat for the past two weeks and I hear something new every time I listen to it.”
Front Porch Musings

“Small Town Hymns finds American Aquarium beginning to settle into their sound, while pulling back on the guitars and tempos, evoking both late-night alt-country reflection and sparser, slow-burn rock amble. ”
Chris Parker - Shuffle Magazine

“Whiskeytown’s heir apparent, with a faster pulse and a sense of humor ”
More Cowbelle

"hard-nosed, soft-hearted country-founded rock pushed down the road by a driving rhythm section and an acoustic guitar's unrepentant major chords but guided to safety by expansive lovelorn narratives"
Grayson Currin - Independent Weekly (Raleigh, NC)

"think Springsteen teaming up with Whiskeytown"
Michelle Gilzenrat - The Flagpole (Athens, GA)

"The hardest working band in the South"
Bill Deyoung - Connect Savannah (Savannah, GA)

"..they’ve become one of the most entertaining acts in the Carolinas, letting the raucous alt-country rock ring."
Sean Rayford - Columbia City Paper (Columbia, SC)

"this is what the Boss would've sounded like in his early years, if he were raised in North Carolina instead of Jersey."
Leah Willis - Knoxville Metro Pulse (Knoxville, TN)

"B.J. Barham is a sort of post-Ryan Adams Raleigh songwriter to watch."
Tim Davis - Creative Loafing (Charlotte, NC)