“Let go of the old ones/We’ve got some new ones,” sings Scott McMicken on “The Old Days,” a woozy parlor-room piano-rock reverie. The Philadelphia band’s albums have always sounded like they should be filed alongside “old ones” like the Band, the Beach Boys, the Beatles and the Bonzo Dog Band, but Fate feels less like a straight tribute to Dr. Dog’s elders and more like a finely tuned collage.
Review by Will Hermes for Rolling Stone
