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"A dark and stunningly subtle record"
-Treble

"His arrangements are some of the most compelling yet, daubing the diaries of his peregrinations with unusual instrumentation and gauzy production."
-Boston Phoenix

"Awash in lo-fi charm, riddled with the beats of a broken hand drum, and cradling Howard's even-keeled vocals (think Dave Berman of the Silver Jews) You're No Dream comes together as a collection of ragtag nursery rhymes, reminding us ever so gently that the world kind of sucks sometimes."
-L Magazine

"Howard overlays his innocent, haunting melodies with vivid visual snippets and wraith-like vocals that veer imperceptibly from hope to deflates weariness. It is this weirdly lucid sense that characterizes the record, which, with its wistful ukelele and stark, almost tribal percussion, seems to exist entirely within the phantom space between sleep and wakefulness."
-Philadelphia City Paper

"Bursting with intimacy and mystery"
-Boston Globe

"With none of the rock trappings of his previous, equally excellent Hell Train, You're No Dream actually does carry some of the atmosphere associated with dreams: a strangeness both pretty and mysterious. The mood is richly defined and vague, crystal-clear and open."
-Pop Matters

"Howard infuses his songs with vivid visual snippets and narratives...a hollow, stripped-down aesthetic and finely tuned articulation....Howard makes the most of this deadpan delivery, achieving a sublime creepiness reminiscent of Velvet Underground ballads"
-The Weslyan Argus

"Un disque quasi miraculeux"
-concertandco.com

Previous Selected Press:

"When the songs come together, they incorporate humor without being cute. They use word play without seeming overly clever. They can dig into personal or emotional territory and not feel overdone. Throughout, it's all executed with a surprising level of assuredness and thoughtfulness that gives the songs an air of sturdiness that is palpable early on..."
-Pop Matters

"Meticulously crafted songs full of surprises, with glints of melancholy French horn, garbled voices swathed in white noise, and tipsy accordion filling in the spaces around his spare acoustic guitar and banjo. His lyrics explore the intricacies and entanglements of romantic relationships with an affecting candor."
-Boston Phoenix

"Tim Howard writes with wit, intelligence, and confused ambivalence. Pairing these lyrics with his low, often defeated-sounding voice and guitar played from super-slow to frenetic, the results can be quite nice, soothing even, especially during those really painful earaches...."
-Lost At Sea

"An open book of country pop and psychedelia imbued with a postmodern nonchalance, a la Pavement or Lou Reed.... Soltero reaches beyond its influences with new vision and in full color, presenting a collection of fine ballads, laments and invocations."
-Owl Mag

"Howard's understated record... flutters with cerulean butterfly wings, a sudden display of brilliant design and a Nabokovian surreality."
-Junkmedia

Soltero's songwriting tact approaches that of Lee Hazelwood and Leonard Cohen with wry couplet after wry couplet that make the humor all the darker."
-Northeast Performer

"Entre le point de départ et l'arrivée, le train aura parcouru bien du chemin, faisant halte dans tous les patelins perdus rencontrés sur la route, et donnant de la sorte à chacun des musiciens ambulants l'occasion de s'exprimer à fond, jusqu'à faire exploser tout à fait la structure initialement prévue pour certains morceaux."
-PopNews.com (FR)

"The news may be bad, but the way Howard tells it often evokes a smile amid the tears. Without those few light touches, mostly lyrical in nature, Defrocked might have been too heavy for even the hardest cynics to endure. With them, Howard reminds us that a sense of humor is the best survival tool for life's myriad disappointments -- some good songs don't exactly hurt, either." ****
-All Music Guide

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