Uncut & Mojo

[kgp]

...each give Folker it's proper and clichéd three stars.

Uncut says: The tender 'What About Mine' and 'As Far As I Know', the latter practically a page out of The hollies' songbook are terrific...but Folker falters midway, dragged down by one too many plodding ballads.

There's also a fragment of an interview that doesn't appear to continue on to another page and is nowhere to be found on the website.

When asked about the reunion rumors Paul said, "We're not. I wanted to for about 15 minues one day. When I found out..."

And it just stops there. Be creative and fill in the rest.

[troublkepnyerhedup]

A friend of mine got his Mojo subscription workin' so I'll transcribe what it says there.

Paul Westerberg
***
Folker (Sore Point)
Listless alt-rock hero rediscovers the thread
After several years of depression and a couple of underwhelming albums, Westerberg seemed to be floundering the years since he lost the major label teat after 1999's excellent Suicaine Gratification (sic). Fortunately, the folmer Replacement's latest homemade shambles marks a major leap along the road to recovery. My Dad, a lovingly phrased tribute to Westerberg's recently deceased father, marks a characteristaclly economical lyrical peak, but there's fun to be had elsewhere with the playful Jingle (Buy It) and the dissolute Folk Star, which ends with a stumbling but beautiful version of Fairport's Who Knows Where The Time Goes. An unusually sophisticated reference for the man formerly one heroin addiction short of being the Johnny Thunders of indie rock, perhaps, but proof, with the rest of Folker, that Westerberg's discernment hasn't failed him yet.
—Jim Wirth