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AMPLIFIER
"One of the best albums of the year. August, melodic, and heart wrenching. As visceral as Richard & Linda Thompson's harrowing split-up account Shoot Out the Lights, or Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye."

THE BIG TAKEOVER
(#2 on Publisher/Editor Jack Rabid's Top 40 picks)
"Auer's first proper solo LP after a long career is a total surprise...a conceptual, soulful record -- but with a prickly, smarting underside.... What you do get is something akin to a watershed LP.... A counterspell you can't escape.... This could be 2006's sleeper LP, this thicket of thorns lurking beneath a beauteous rose." (pdf of review/article)

UNCUT
"It's a fine showing.... A stripped-down, one-man band record with brittle, beguiling melodies reminiscent of The Zombies enlightened melancholy.... Six Feet Under is startling (and liberating), a brilliant inversion of pop routine." (4 of 5 stars)

POP MATTERS
"Throughout, each song carries a strong, distinct melody, as if someone built an entire Brill Building in Auer's head.... Auer rides his juxtaposition of soaring form and searing content into pop transcendence." (8 of 10)

HARP
"Better even than his contributions to last year’s Posies and Big Star albums, Demise displays the sort of pop classicism that Auer excels at.... Even if Auer wears his lingering pain on his sleeve throughout most of the record, that pain is framed by such unerring, uplifting melodies that you almost hope, selfishly, that heartbreak will visit him each time he sits down to write."

PITCHFORK MEDIA
"It's difficult to argue with any of the material on its own terms.... It sounds as if Auer might have been keeping aside some of his best stuff when making the last Big Star and Posies albums.... Auer may have the lower profile of the two lead Posies, but he's every bit the artisan his bandmate is." (7.5 of 10)

UNDER THE RADAR
"Contains the most arresting songwriting of Auer's career. Six Feet Under...a perfect melody over acoustic guitar, gentle chimes, and subtle orchestration, while the album's closer, The Year of Our Demise creeps along with pulsing rhythms and understated, pointed vocals, slowly building in an intensity reminiscent of Elvis Costello's I Want You. This is Jon Auer at his best." (8 of 10 blips)

THE ONION
"The Posies released Every Kind Of Light last year, but its excellence has already been surpassed by Auer's solo full-length debut.... He's emerged with what could be his sharpest, most memorable work since Frosting On The Beater."

DUSTED
"A good Auer track plays on the simultaneous excitement and melancholy that drives all good pop.... Some of the strongest stuff on Songs From the Year of Our Demise navigates that divide explicitly.... He's created some of the most psychologically complex pop music of the last two decades."

THE VILLAGE VOICE
"A confessional and delicately nuanced solo album."

CMJ
"Unabashedly fetching and spirited pop.... A sound that betters Ben Gibbard at his game.... Cemetery Song is the kind of sincere, stripped-down acoustic charmer all but lost in most records these days."

THE CHICAGO READER
"During the long wait for its release, Jon Auer's first solo album acquired a mythic status among power-pop fans... Meaningful and potentially enduring."

TINY MIX TAPES
"The melodies are so damn spot-on that I keep coming back again and again.... Cloudy-day pop that's hard to top."

THE WASHINGTON POST
"Like Warren Zevon and Richard Thompson, he's pretty funny when he's nasty.... Slashing and burning seldom sounds so pretty."

PASTE
"Songs balances caustic lyrics with beautiful power-pop interludes."

ALL MUSIC GUIDE
"Delivers more of the melodic, heartfelt pop that longtime fans have come to expect.... It's nice to hear Auer in top form here."

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