"Holcombe Waller's Troubled Times is part personal confession and part tirade of the current Bush administration. A highlight from the latter category? Waller actually manages to rhyme Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's name -- sort of. "Condoleezz, baby pleezz...," Waller croons on "No Enemy," "You must reverse your stance and seal your fate/ To mend the broken wing of the state."

But even without the none-to-subtle pleas for a return to political rationality, the languid, almost non-committal quality of Waller's music feels like a challenge to the status quo in itself. The meandering, post-climactic quality of his tunes -- there is rarely a chord strummed all album -- seems to suggest, "lets knock it off with hyper-masculine 'stratergery,' America, and take a deep breath, and stop insisting everything we do be punctuated with a wailing guitar solo." Troubled Times is Waller's third album to date, all released on his own Napoleon Records label." -InRadio.net March/April 2005

"For melodic sweep, the prize goes to Holcombe Waller, whose self-released Extravagant Gesture is a small pop epic."
Anne Powers, REVOLVER Magazine, May/June 2001

"Waller renders songs of romantic holocaust with a nakedness that can't be taught..."
Kate Sullivan, SPIN Magazine, June 2001


"His composition shares an affinity with Bjork in that it seems to come from some future place of greater sophistication..."
Clay Steakley, Performing Songwriter Magazine, May 2001

This CD is discontinued, but it's sometimes available at live shows.

Released in 1999, ADVERTISING SPACE marked Holcombe's recorded debut, as well as his first release on his own Napoleon Records.

The CD is discontinued, but it's still sometimes available at live shows.