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“Full of Light and Full of Fire is easily one of the best albums of the decade. … Like Born to Run, Pleased to Meet Me, and Being There, Full of Light and Full of Fire is another page in American mythology, an artifact of the withered dreams and fallen hopes of the dispossessed.” - PopMatters
“The seventh album from this Brooklyn-via-Georgia quintet transmits wizened poetry and rec-room intimacy with Music Row-worthy craft. … [T]hough the band seems sure the world is going to hell in a handbasket, gorgeous slow-burners recognize that complicated love is better than no love at all.” - Rolling Stone
“Sly epics that strip Americana music of its recent purist veneer and put the mess back into it … political without preaching, sexy in a bookish way.” - Blender
“Full of Light and Full of Fire contains the prettiest protest songs imaginable.” - Entertainment Weekly
“Their sparkling wit and dynamic approach to songwriting sets them in the higher echelons of the music world. … The truth is, it seems as if the Mendoza Line has no limitations.” - Treble
“The world is a ghetto, and this time, the Mendoza Line is ghetto-fabulous… these songs are too beaten and maybe too smart to protest, but too pissed to do nothing.” - Dusted
“Shannon McArdle and Timothy Bracy are adept at presenting heavy topics with a light hand… the lyrics are subtle and poignant, with as much emphasis on storytelling as dissent.” - Pitchfork
Tracks
1. Water Surrounds
2. Catch A Collapsing Star
3. Golden Boy (Torture In The Shed)
4. Rat's Alley
5. Settle Down, Zelda
6. Pipe Stories
7. Name Names
8. Mysterious In Black
9. Morbid Craving
10. The Lethal Temptress
11. Our Love Is Like A Wire