"... the band's sixth full-length effort, comes out of the gate swinging with the 40-grit "Do Your Worst," a radio-ready banger that evokes both Led Zeppelin and the Black Keys. The lusty "Sugar on the Bone" follows a similar trajectory, with Mike Miley's Valhallic drumming leading the charge, as does the greasy "Back in the Woods," the latter of which sets the narrative tone for the sea change that follows. In between the recording of Feral Roots and its predecessor, frontman Jay Buchanan moved his family from Southern California to the woodsy outskirts of Franklin, Tennessee, and that change in milieu informs much of the LP's middle section"