Dusty recordings were brushed off and polished into a Western luster, with each track seemingly aglow under layers of pedal steel, neon light, and singer Mark Wystrach’s gentle twang. Released in July, its songs were written in the first flush of inspiration when its three founding members joined long before the subsequent Grammy nods and GQ mentions. The onetime Austin-based classic country revivalists are as whiskey- and sun-soaked as ever, singing plaintive songs that never verge on saccharine or phony. We’re playing fast and loose with the word “album” - The Last Resort is technically a five-song EP - but it’s our list and if you don’t like it, you can fight us in the same seedy bar in which Midland would be right at home. But there’s plenty to enjoy while alone on a solo drive down the road. Sure, it’s a record you could listen to with your girlfriend or boyfriend riding shotgun inoffensive and eager to please while sitting its backbeat deep in the pocket. Much water has passed under the bridge, and her latest, Solar Power, shows a wiser-beyond-her-years Lorde both reflecting on her short, strange journey a refined (and leaner) ear for catchy pop hooks and plenty of youth left in the chamber. market as an iconoclast: a teen that sounded unlike anyone else and therefore had a future without precedent (Billie Eilish, anyone?). Pairing hip-hop beats with New Zealand yearnings, she burst into the U.S. It seems like a decade has passed since Pure Heroine, Lorde’s 2013 debut record.
The Marfa Tapes by Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall.Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night by Bleachers.Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’ by Lainey Wilson.The Battle at Garden’s Gate by Greta Van Fleet.Fearless (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift.Dangerous: The Double Album by Morgan Wallen.
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