"After one listen, Brian's songs already seem familiar, they're just that catchy. When I heard his CD, some of those songs grabbed me from the first note; he sounds great on the radio."

Jason Keller - WHRL/Channel 103.1 DJ

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The term “singer-songwriter” usually conjures images of acoustic strummers delivering folky or brooding narratives. But Brian Bassett’s straight-ahead rock tunes - which call to mind expansive fare like early Radiohead, Oasis, and Matthew Sweet’s 100% Fun - are made to be swathed in thick guitars and lush production. His songs take a direct, simple path to the heart, not to the intellect and not hitched to any trend. On last year’s “Rock and Roll” LP, Bassett came off like a man in search of an arena, avoiding poetic platitudes and complex rumination and glorying in big, breathless love-rock, earnestly direct anthems and throbbing melodic hooks. Bassett was back in the studio recently, so let’s hope that we soon see a new album packed with his grand rock intentions.

Erik Hage - Metroland

"Much of "Nothing to Lose" stands up to repeated listening, and on each successive play the album yields up another pleasing touch: the ribbit of a guiro, twinkly chimes, acoustic-guitar filigree atop the attitudinal snarl of its electric sibling, a joyful chorus sung a capella save for a tambourine."

Steve Barnes
Arts Editor - Times Union