Summary: The Boston Globe says "Like Summerteeth-era Wilco, RC's arresting debut is a smart-bomb stunner whose material moves with cool ease and crisp authority amid multi layered hooks and moods." -Jonathan Perry Read the full review HERE. The Nashville Scene says...The Wee Hours Revue is a triumph, with Skips jaunty, pinched, sharp-edged vocals, Logans DJ Shadow-influenced approach to the drum kit and the bands vintage-tinged jangly guitars and Rhodes undertones. -Jewly Hight Wordy melodies and strumming guitars, rocking out on epic levels. Best when played big and loud, approaching majestic heights of goodness. This is a gem -www.buzzgrinder.com EDITOR'S PICK on smother.net Wilco fans listen up. Roman Candle is right up your alley. With lyrical twists and wit that could easily be mistaken for Elvis Costello, Roman Candle write compelling songs that are warm with smiling melodic vocals and rich with harmonious guitars. The layers that this band employs on The Wee Hours Revue are simply staggering. Soulful groove is teased by alt. country tenets that are properly deployed without sounding derivative and with proper asides to the Grand Ole Opry sound followed by nice nods to folk rock. The keyboard arranges things nicely with church organ spine tingly effect. Roman Candle sounds like a polished band playing 70s era rock n roll with a bit of folk and country stirred in. - J-Sin "Roman Candle is one of the best, most complete American rock bands to surface in a decade ... After all, (they are) better at what they do--writing imaginative pop songs and building them into captivating four-minute Southern-air epics with the unleashed spirit of The Replacements and unorthodox intuition of Wilco--than any other "band on the verge" in memory." The Independent 6-21-06 Love is an understatement for what I feel about Roman Candle's album, The Wee Hours Revue. This album has songs reminiscent of the golden era of glam rock yet the soul of indie music. You Dont Belong To This World is a love song that pulls at the heart without being sappy. Songs like I Cant Even Recall and Ive Got a Reason are the reasons why I will put this album on my nano ipod. The lyrical content of the album speaks to a broad audience. The plausible story lines and dreamy hooks are likely to keep ones attention. The only glitch is the preachy undertones on love. Over all, this album deserves to be part of any well rounded music lovers CD collection. (9 out of 10) -D.Watley (www.racketmag.com) 8 out of 10 on lostatsea.net. 4 out of 5 at Orlando City Beat. Bands from the South don't usually make it big in the Big Apple, but when they do, they make it really big. This is an album to listen to and Roman Candle is a band to watch. --Glenna Gordon The Wee Hours Revue gets some blog love here. "One of NC's best bands, roman candle, clashes like early kinks at times, then aches like ryan adams. Just don't call them alt-country, that be kind of like calling highway 61 revisted alt-country." --Mark Kemp "...the five-piece band Roman Candle makes well-crafted music, with an attention to detail and a gritted-teeth determination that's hard to find these days. Theirs is a quest for some kind of supreme sonic moment, a layering of sounds and emotions not unlike what's found at the heart of the pastoral-soul work of that Morrison fellow...there's more '70s soul in Roman Candle's sound than '00s alt-country, characterized by, among other elements, a tangible warmth and the wonderful shimmer of a Rhodes." --Rick Cornell
