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Oct 11, 2011Surfaces aside, the songs on Breaks In The Armor are impassioned and crafty--right in line with what Bachmann has been up to for decades now.
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Oct 17, 2011While Breaks takes a few tracks to pick up traction, Bachmann's true grit comes through.
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Apr 23, 2012It feels like a declaration of purpose instead, made all the stronger for having passed through the crucible of Bachmann's doubts, through the armor breaks, and straight into-and from-the heart.
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MagnetNov 15, 2011There's a noisy undercurrent on Breaks in the Armor, which may become even more prevalent with the return of and cross-pollination with Archers Of Loaf, but the album's stripped-back, still powerful songs might be indicating Crooked Finger's path from here.[#82, p. 54]
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Oct 26, 2011Breaks in the Armor may, with a few slight tweaks, find Bachmann doing more or less the same thing as he's done on his past few albums, but when he does it this well, there's little reason to object.
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Oct 18, 2011Breaks In the Armor ranks among the best Crooked Fingers albums.
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Oct 13, 2011These compact morsels of art-folk grandeur set the scene perfectly for one another.
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Oct 11, 2011It may not be as pretty as Red Devil Dawn or as road trip-ready as Forfeit/Fortune, but Breaks in the Armor has got more gas in the tank than either of them.
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Oct 11, 2011Armor is Bachmann's most vigorous post-Archers of Loaf full-length since 2003's Red Devil Dawn.
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Oct 12, 2011It's all spare and often dark, but Breaks in the Armor is a surprisingly comforting album in its cloudy way.
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Nov 17, 2011Bachmann may be taking a stark look at things, but rarely had bleakness sounded so appealing.
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Oct 31, 2011If it breaks no significant new creative ground, this set serves to offer possibly the best examples to date of Bachmann's strengths as a songwriter and as a compelling singer.
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Oct 24, 2011Previous Crooked Fingers albums have been more elaborately orchestrated, fortifying themselves; this one, even when cushioned by Liz Durrett's backup vocals, makes a wary peace with its own sense of isolation.
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Oct 12, 2011Breaks' lyrical thumbnails of lost opportunities and forgotten friends can seem a touch too pathos-addled on paper, but drawn through Bachmann's lungs, they leave their mark.