Thomas Comerford - Introverts (2021)

4/5 Stars, "“Introverts is the stunning 4th album from the Chicago-based Thomas Comerford. It’s mind-boggling in itself how Comerford has amassed such a wealth of players, creating nothing that sounds like your average piecemeal 'virtual' assemblage, and hats off to he and fellow multi-instrumentalist Robbie Hamilton for the production values alone, since they’ve created something comparable to Brendan O’Brien’s mid-90s work. … Musically akin to pre-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco … Introverts is without a doubt a ‘go back to’ LP.” -- Louis Wigget, Shindig! Magazine

"Comerford straddles the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s and the dusty, deadpan observations of psychedelic iconoclasts such as Bill Callahan ... amid all the album’s expansive sounds, including the pretty lilt of Tom McGettrick’s pedal steel guitar, the natural tremor in Comerford’s voice makes him sound more apprehensive than confident. These beguiling country songs leave their doors open for you to poke around and find hidden interpretations that are inevitably right." -- Mark Guarino, Chicago Reader

"The vividness of Comerford’s words establish him as an uncommonly astute exponent of the singer-songwriter tradition. Adding to this is distinctive inflection that at times recalls Bill Callahan and David Berman." -- Joseph Neff, Vinyl District

" I want to say this feels like the ’60s invading the ’80s indie scene by way of ’70s singer-songwriters, but that duet with Azita Youssefi on “Partners” is such a perfectly timeless update of the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwood dynamic, I’m just at a loss for words."-- Nick Spacek, Cinepunx