| Fear Not the Obvious | ||||
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| Released | September 26, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||
| Genre | Rock, Americana, alternative country | |||
| Length | 46:50 | |||
| Label | Bloodshot [1] | |||
| Producer | Eric Ambel | |||
| The Yayhoos chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Robert Christgau |  [3] |
Fear Not the Obvious is the first album by The Yayhoos, released in 2001. [4]
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No Depression wrote that the band sound "like every band that ever staggered through three sets a night for all the beer they could drink." [7] The Washington Post wrote that "the Yayhoos go for the most reliable basics of rock 'n' roll -- a whomping 4/4 beat, lyrics full of barroom jokes and pick-up lines, noisy guitars, three chords and a cloud of dust." [8] Exclaim! wrote: "It's actually a little unnerving how easily Baird and Ambel are able to update the classic Faces vibe when contemporaries like the Black Crowes seem to labour over it." [9] Greil Marcus described the sound as "a foursome with bad teeth in a fearless stumble into the Faces' A Nod Is as Good as a Wink ... to a Blind Horse." [10]
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