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REVIEWS - WORKING IN LOVE
It’s albums like this that make me wish I could do more for artists. This is a very, very good CD. If you see these guys coming to your town, don’t miss a chance to see them.
-Berkeley Place, Weblog
There is never a dull moment to be found on the impressive Working In Love.
-Obscure Sound, Weblog
Cruising the backroads at night with this album as your soundtrack is something close to musical bliss. I am starting to think that Jon Hardy and The Public are one of St. Louis’ best
kept secrets. I have a feeling that will be changing soon.
-Your Standard Life, Weblog
Jon Hardy and The Public just released an excellent album called Working in Love, and I have
been listening to it nonstop for two weeks. The band has been described as alt-country, but
their use of horns, xylophones, and shimmering guitars makes them far more than that.
-Dividing by Zero Will Get You Nowhere, Weblog
Jon Hardy and The Public tread in Americana’s dreamier realm, thanks to chiming, echo-laden
guitar strokes and big-hearted choruses that threaten to tear songs apart at their seams.
-The Riverfront Times, Weekly
There are too many records being made by competent people these days, and no way to get an overview on the thousands upon thousands of them. The needle pins at average and not much pushes past that. This does. Maybe there are loads of bands better than this. I haven't heard them, so Jon Hardy and the Public are, for me, a rare find. I hope Hardy's got more albums in him, because he's doing fascinating work.
-Ed Ward, No Depression
REVIEWS - MAKE ME LIKE GOLD
A collection of love songs with sparkling choruses that realize and raise unequivocal pop melodies, the album bids farewell to alt-country influences for a punchy and pretty 60’s blue-eyed southern soul ethos- electric pianos, deep horn lines, and tight, instantly danceable grooves- with the faintest finest traces of power-pop at the edges. Surrounded by that sound, Hardy never grandstands, never reaches for cryptic metaphors when the simplest straightest line to emotion is the truest.
-Roy Kasten, No Depression