Stuart Henderson
Perhaps it's unfair ... to hold Isbell to his own lofty standards. Compared to those of his contemporaries, these songs are still miles ahead, particularly album highlight "If We Were Vampires."
8y
Armed with a voice like a gravel road in a dry season, Saskatchewan's Colter Wall sounds more like a world-weary troubadour than most actual world-weary troubadours.
9y
Smart, funny, empathetic and wise, Musgraves is one of the best in the business right now — even when it seems she might be treading water.
10y
This is a hard-rocking, sing-out-loud, air-guitar-in-the-mirror kind of country record.
11y
The songs — though sparely produced as usual — sound picked over, like they've been played too many times and have lost their fire.
12y
Comfortable, but numbing. It all sounds great, but the songs don't sink in, don't push past the surface.
12y
Finding his inspiration at the intersection of country and heavy metal, The Outsiders offers a dozen powerfully rocking tracks that sound like little else on the radio, anywhere on the dial. This is, emphatically, a good thing.
12y
Clark has served notice that he’s still here, and that those old hands haven’t yet gone still. Stuff that works, indeed.
9y
Folk-tinged, smart, melodic, and true, this is the stuff Isbell used to promise and deliver. Come back.
15y
Throughout Here is What is, Lanois’ fifth, and best, record, we hear reverberations of the past, and meditations on the future.
2w
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