From Dutch Roots Radio:

So here we have a singer-songwriter, wandering around in shadowy soundscapes filled with thunderstorms, but he knows exactly where he's going! He gets his emotions across, singing about the dark side of love in poetic lines that you want to think about. "I took what I needed for a time / And still I'd never trade your lies for mine." ("Kinder") "Middle Of Nowhere" with the gorgeous line "Still write songs for you / Though I know we've been through for a long while now", with harmonica and Martha Wainwright probably comes closest to a singer-songwriter track. Together with introspective alt.country-ish heartbreak duet (yes, incredible Martha again!) "Long Walk Home": "Looking back and you're turning away / With all my questions of yesterday / To be answered some other way." With pedal steel... If Gram & Emmylou had been twenty-somethings after the millennium! "Trouble" is a short guitar/pedal steel song, following as a kind of "Part 2". "All This And Nothing" appears as an intense alt.rock track, while "Wake In Place" is orchestral with strings: "Don't show me your mask today / I see through it now anyway." "In Between" starts off with hypnotizing soundeffects and winds from the ears through the mind like a slow stream, beautiful! "Broken as a string you've played..." "Dry Season" shows off Josh's expressive singing and in last track "Ecstasy" we find the title of the album: "I'm feeling the nights rewind / Like you're still around."

I asked Josh to fill out the line "This is for listeners who also like..." and -although he thought it was a tough question- he came up with a very cool list of names! Will Oldham, David Lynch, Russell Banks, Neutral Milk Hotel, M. Ward, The Jayhawks, Chris Bell, Wim Wenders, Lars Von Trier, Grant Lee Buffalo, Galaxie 500, Townes Van Zandt, Iron and Wine, Mary Timony, My Morning Jacket, Early REM, George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", Jim Jarmuch's "Dead Man", Tom Robbins' "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates"...

From Spendid E-Zine:

The Allen brothers' world is a dark, shadowy place. Josh and Todd have turned their first full-length into an evocative, dreamlike affair, incorporating aspects of shoegaze, tape manipulation, post-rock and traditional singer/songwriter fare.

There's great depth in the layers of sound that "Kinder" employs -- it's at once impenetrable and emotionally transparent. Josh's vocals sound vaguely like Michael Stipe, while the music's closest analog is a more experimental Joseph Arthur. "Middle of Nowhere" incorporates the aforementioned sonic sprawl; by the song's end, it sounds like an extended Mogwai jam recorded on a freight train.

The album was recorded in the Allens' home, but sounds easily as polished as studio fare. The mix is rich, featuring multiple guitars, pianos and vocals, but the mix never seems crowded. The brothers' ability to manage so many different musical elements helps their compositions to build to a self-referential frenzy, reverbed and lonely, peers to Phaser or My Bloody Valentine.

The Nights Rewind is a beautiful album, worthy of both your time and your tears.

-- Tyson Lynn