“At the top of my sonic shopping list” - Praise for BDL’s New Album
Bicentennial Drug Lord’s very excellent third album “You Are Never Alone” came out a couple weeks ago. Astute critics are digging it. Here’s just a smattering of their kind words…
John Daniels, Alan Weatherhead, Rick Donner.
From Big Takeover
But unlike most music made in such a sonic realm, it is endowed with a smart blend of poetic descriptions and scene-setting narratives, recalling the trials and tribulations of formative years long gone, half-recalled memories and hazy nostalgia, something that we can all relate to. Dexterous lyrics that feel like a punk Springsteen or if Dylan had ever found a happier place to write from.
What a great introduction to the band, a great way to tease the audience and test the water before the album drops, incidentally, an album at the top of my sonic shopping list, exactly where it should be on yours….
From Americana UK
Burning bright and turning to ashes just in time to join the 27 Club is liable to cement your legacy forever, or at least for a while. Chances are, though, that that’s not the path any particular musician is on (and all the better for them, however appealing it might seem on a Sunday night when the alarm awaits maliciously, ready to inaugurate another week of mundane work). And so, time flies, here comes middle age and its new perspectives. Bicentennial Drug Lord has put together an album that revolves around this less-sung-about period, and it’s a feel-good, alternatingly touching and funny tribute to all those rockers who survived the turbulent youth exalted in the annals of music history.
From The Sounds Won’t Stop
By the time you get this far into the record, which is a little more than halfway, you begin to feel like this is almost like a concept record in a sense. These songs have ways of connecting with each other. It feels kind of like they serve as chapters in someone's life, and you're hearing them unfold. A lot of it has to do with how it's lyrically portrayed and how those lyrics can really be pretty descriptive in a sense, which pulls you into those stories even further. There's a lot of vastness in the underbelly of this record and I enjoyed that a lot. Those layers of depth and spacious Ambience that exist just underneath its surface is wonderful and also helps drive that classic rock and cinematic backbone even further.