"There's a ton-wad of "When The Levee Breaks"/"When you get to the bottom, you go back to the top of the slide" blues-rock goodness inside Rival Sons' 39-minute opening salvo, Before The Fire (Front Line Music). This is rock so un-ironic that the singer screams, "Whooo!" before the intro to marvelously Zeppelin-y opener "Tell Me Something," and they retain that high energy, just-barely-on-the-rails mojo throughout." -JamBase
"This diverse group of four with broad musical influences has come together and created a new chemistry, a new energy, and new sound to modern day rock n roll. The RIVAL SONS can swagger. They’ve got soul. They’ve got all the stuff you love about classic rock combined with a diverse stroke of blues, soul and Motown served on a plate of reckless abandon. After all, “cool” will always be equal parts modern, vintage, and vision." -MSO
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