2002 — Patrick Berkery, "Record Review", Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 9 January 2002:
So pontificating on how Weathered's earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo yarl amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.
But replacing Stapp's proselytizing and he-man yarl are Kennedy's more everyman concerns (love, truth and the glory of the rock show) and dynamic pipes.
2008 — Michael J. Vaughn, Outro, iUniverse (2008), →ISBN, page 10:
One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.
They're also clearly a product of their time and place, though, as much textbook emocore as they are at times almost "grunge" or "alternative rock," with Enigk's voice approaching the dreaded "yarl" when he really strains it screaming.
2002 — Joey Sweeney, "Why Creed Sucks", Philadelphia Weekly, 25 December 2002:
Creed's sound is the sound of what was very likely hundreds of bands from the mid-'90s: monster riffs; deep, thundering Led Zep-esque beats; and searing choruses that played fast and loose with spiritual truisms (à la U2) delivered by a singer well-schooled in yarling--that back-of-the-throat, oh-so-masculine Jim Morrison/Chewbacca noise perfected by Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder.
From Puddle of Mudd to Staind to Creed to Nickelback, the yarling grunge descendants replaced rock’s devil-may-care excitement with blazoned earnestness and sludge.
