God Don't Like It

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Total Tracks: 12   Total Length: 37:47

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Holly for ever

Muselmann

Whenever you have the blues, have been drinking too much or maybe both this record is pure gold. It is over before you know it because you enjoy the vibe so much. There are only tracks which sticks to my mind, the rest just blends in. Holly has her style of 60's garage rock all worked out and sticks to it. Some might find it monotonous, but it really depends on if you like the vibe or not.

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think AMG was wrong, above

betterthanyours

I am a huge Bill Withers fan, and sometimes like a good tribute track / cover song. But...Holly Golightly seems to be in a different mode on this record, focused on doin' her *original* thang. "Use Me" comes off really watered down, instead of illuminated or creatively re-interpreted. All the other stuff's sweet...Especially the Melchior duet "Feel Something," with its harmonica accents.

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They Say All Music Guide

It’s hard to imagine how God couldn’t possibly dig Holly Golightly’s sixth groovy full-length, but to each his own (then again, Blind Willie McTell’s “God Don’t Like It” actually refers to moonshine). The former Headcoatee and band are in fine fettle on these 12 tracks of twangy British Invasion pop with an R&B twist. Things get off to an auspicious start with rollicking, reverb-drenched original, “I Hear You,” and come to a honey of a conclusion with one of those surprising covers that have become Golightly’s stock in trade — in this case, a virtually unrecognizable surf guitar version of Bill Withers’ “Use Me.” She also gives “Pretty Good Love” (aka, “That’s a Pretty Good Love,” a song mostly closely associated with blues belter Big Maybelle) a slow, seductive “Fever”-like spin, but wrote the rest of the material herself, with the exception of Dan Melchior’s “Can’t Stand to See Your Face” (and duets with him on the harmonica-driven “Feel Something”). – Kathleen C. Fennessy

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