PRAISE FOR OLD TENEMENT MAN (2017):

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“His powerful new album Old Tenement Man [ …] is a record of record of noisy peaks (the distortion -blazed “Jacob’s Well”)  and delicate valleys (the lovely acoustic exorcism “Little Hunger”). The album is important because it showcases DeCroo as someone who- like Neil Young and Lou Reed – is capable of reinventing himself sonically.”
– Georgia Straight

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“The album to make all sorts who didn’t “get it” before figure it out. He sounds like he’s having a blast and it’s infectious.”
– Vancouver Sun

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“Once I’d heard Rodney DeCroo’s forthcoming album, “Old Tenement Man,” I absolutely could not get it out of my mind. […] This is a powerful set of songs, from a terrifically talented songwriter.”
– Great Dark Wonder

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“Rodney DeCroo is back!”
– Lethbridge Herald

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“[DeCroo] turns up the volume on Old Tenement Man, with bracing results.”
– FYI Music News

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“Tenement is, to borrow a phrase, a brilliant record. It’s a grit-caked, guts-stained guttural work that’s so immediate, alive and honest you’ll hear its heartbeat before you press play, but so timeless that you’d swear you could sing every line on first listen.It’s astonishing, really, just how classic of a contemporary rock record it is.”
– The YYScene

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“Canadian creative powerhouse Rodney DeCroo is wowing with his latest album, Old Tenement Man.”
– Canadian Beats

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“DeCroo’s the kind of musician who is unsettling in just the right way and he gets that vibe just right on

his new album Old Tenement Man.”
– Saskatoon Star Phoenix

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“It is the perfect backdrop for DeCroo’s chief, rare gift; he is an exquisite, literate, surreal, and rich lyricist.”
– The Daily Gleaner

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“Vancouver’s DeCroo knows lots about creating vivid characters with complex stories, and getting them out in dramatic fashion. On his latest album, those songs burn with added intensity thanks to tightly wound but very catchy melodies. He and producer Lorrie Matheson have turned these into compelling tales no matter the darkness inside.”
– Top100CanadianSingles (Bob Mersereau)

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“I really like Old Tenement Man.”
–  BC Musician Magazine

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“DeCroo is a little Dylan with Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, John Cooper Clarke ("Beasley Street"),
and a vocal smidgen of Kurt Vile.”
– Waterloo Region Record

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PRAISE FOR OLD TENEMENT MAN (2017) - DUTCH PRESS:

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Barn Owl Blues (Netherlands)
OOR (Netherlands)
Krenten Uit De Pop (Netherlands)
Real Roots Cafe (Netherlands)
Johnny's Garden (Netherlands)
Jaks Schuit - Verhalen en recensies (Netherlands)

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PRAISE FOR CAMPFIRES ON THE MOON (2015):

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“One of Canada’s most sensitive and brilliant singer-songwriters”
– Adrian Mack, The Georgia Straight

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“Seasoned Vancouver singer-songwriter Rodney DeCroo opens up his weathered heart on his latest album…one that never dares to stop questioning, begging for an answer, and hoping for something better.”
– Francois Marchand, Vancouver Sun

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“Haunting twang and poetic snapshots…the album really is a thing of beauty.”
– Mike Kissinger, Vancouver Courier

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“The revelatory nature of his songwriting, […] is as potent as ever on Campfires on the Moon. […] Atmospheric but in no way sedate, Campfires on the Moon makes use of all that room to emphasize its ideas.”
– Paul Blinov, Vue Weekly

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“One of our very best roots-based troubadours…Campfires on the Moon is another first-class effort.”
– Kerry Doole, New Canadian Music

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PRAISE FOR ALLEGHENY (2012):

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“One of the best, most unflinchingly honest records of the year. If the singer, poet, or whatever you want to call him somehow isn’t on your radar yet, this is where you really need to ask yourself why.”
-Mike Usinger, Georgia Straight

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“I’ve always enjoyed DeCroo’s earlier stuff for it’s grit and often original take on country and folk music, but his sixth album is something else altogether. Allegheny is a collection of DeCroo’s poems set to music; it is gripping, compelling and genuine.”
-Derek Bird, CBC Music

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“Allegheny is an open-hearted attempt at reclaiming the past to look to the future. Allegheny’s spirit hits right where it counts.”
-Francois Marchand, The Vancouver Sun

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 PRAISE FOR QUEEN MARY TRASH (2010):

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 “There’s no trail off and no filler. If you only buy one double album this decade, make sure it is this one.”
–Leicester Bangs, UK

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“You ain’t Steve Earle, You ain’t Neil Young, you ain’t Bob Dylan,” he sings in “You Ain’t No One”. But he is Rodney DeCroo, which is really starting to count for something.”
-Exclaim Magazine

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“Queen Mary Trash showcases songwriting that Steve Earle, John Fogerty or Son Volt would envy.”
-Prairie Dog (Regina)

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“Goddamn! DeCroo’s latest, Queen Mary Trash, is one of his finest efforts.”
– Left Hip (Montréal)

 

 

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PRAISE FOR MOCKINGBIRD BIBLE (2008):

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“A transcendent work of art.”
-No Depression (USA)

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“Mockingbird Bible is a soulful, quiet and absolutely brilliant collection of songs from one of Canada’s premier musical talents. DeCroo has yet again proven himself to be one of the country’s best songwriters.”
-24 Hours

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“Mockingbird Bible is an instant roots classic.”
-Lethbridge Herald

 

 

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 PRAISE FOR WAR TORN MAN (2006):

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“His high, rough and robust vocals suggest Neil Young and Bob Dylan, though it’s really the former, and Steve Earle to boot, that War Torn Man’s 13 tunes bring to mind. It isn’t just the raw, rugged, blues-charged country rock, though, it’s DeCroo’s clear-eyed, deftly articulated conveyance of both his own hard-knock history and the hard knocks recent history has dealt so many.
-Montréal Mirror

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“This album knocked me out within 30 seconds of hitting ‘play’ and has continued to relentlessly beat the shit out of me.”
-Now Magazine (Toronto)

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“Every now and again an album comes along that right from the opening bars you just know it’s gonna be on the nail.
This is such an album.”
-Americana UK