"A West Coast production featuring local talent Stephen Wilson, 'Wilson Drive' is the good time music you hear behind the fence sending up barbecue smoke signals. It’s the easy droptop jams that pull up next to you during a snack-and-six packs stop at the convenience store. It’s late night funk just before last call and Sunday morning coming down. It, in many ways, seeks to fill the same space Sublime occupied in the mid-90s, although perhaps with fewer punk rock accelerants and a couple more Herbie Hancocks for the road. It’s an interesting collection of songs in that it feels less about individual moments than the prolonged soundtrack it provides. There are few manufactured singalong moments. Instead, 'Wilson Drive' builds on a more abstract foundation of mood, groove and attitude. No hits but no filler either. No hooks but deep and infectious jams that distract you from looking. It’s mood music that doesn’t ask much but, when you are least expecting it, provides exactly what you need. It is a really interesting release that feels very simple but is sophisticated in goals and execution. Nice work, Trolls."
-Steven Uhles, The Augusta Press
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