Patterson HoodBest Patterson Hood Albums Ranked

Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

pitchfork

8.0

“The Drive-By Truckers co-founder’s fourth solo album features contributions from Wednesday, Waxahatchee, and more. Surreal and cinematic, it’s his most adventurous solo release—and his best.”

Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams

pastemagazine

7.8

“The Drive-By Truckers co-founder tries something different on his fourth solo album, and the result is an expansive but subtle collection of songs.”

Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs)

pitchfork

7.6

“Drive-By Trucker's second solo album features many songs written years ago, but the whole still hangs together and comes across as cohesive and sharp.”

Killers and Stars

pitchfork

7.4

“Patterson Hood laid out his music-making motivation in "Do It Yourself", the accusatory suicide anthem from the Drive-By Truckers' most recent album, *Decoration Day*: When "the dead-end life just drags you down/ [You] turn those demons into walls of goddamned noise and sound." For more than a decade, Hood has been transforming all that preys on him into songs that are loud, rowdy, and angry, but ”

Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance

rollingstone

7.0

“Frankly, it’s a relief to hear Patterson Hood backed by banjo, fiddle and acoustic strumming; the Drive-By Truckers frontman has hollered Southern Gothic tales over an electric-guitar army with such intensity for so many years, it’s a miracle he hasn’t flamed out. This third solo set was born of a shelved novel/song-cycle project. The hush […]”

Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance

pitchfork

6.5

“The Drive-By Truckers co-founder's new solo album was inspired by the bleakest part of his personal history. The songs here survey lives marked by alcoholism, loneliness, loss of loved ones, and lessons learned the hard way.”