Adopting a fresh moniker – Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory – Van Etten and company embrace their most collaborative venture, crossing the lush sonics of 2019’s Remind Me Tomorrow and the sober confessionalism of 2022’s We’ve Been […]
With his new album, Mahashmashana, Josh Tillman, a.k.a. Father John Misty, backburners the vintage ambiance of his last album, 2022’s Chloë and the Next 20th Century. Instead, Misty revisits the social commentary and reflections on loss that pervaded 2017’s […]
Laura Marling’s latest album, Patterns in Repeat, was inspired by the birth of Marling’s daughter and the singer-songwriter’s initiation into motherhood, but still covers broad thematic ground. Throughout the venture, Marling reflects on her life and the world into which […]
With their new album, Something Is Working Up Above My Head, the Charleston, SC-based duo Shovels & Rope continue to display their affinity for rock-leaning Americana. The album follows 2022’s Manticore, which was steeped in the agitation and uncertainty of […]
With their latest and self-titled LP, The Avett Brothers offer earnest and wistfully philosophic songs set within well-polished soundscapes. Continuing to mine the light-pop and folk-rock MO honed on their major-label debut, 2009’s I and Love and You, the band […]
Albums such as Welcome to Hard Times, Music City USA, and his last release, The Man from Waco, highlight Charley Crockett’s unique meld of the tragic, the wistful, and the satirical. With his 13th album, $10 Cowboy, he offers his […]
With her new album, Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé forges an expansive take on the traditional canon, integrating a broad swathe of American music, including country, blues, R&B, rock, and gospel. While 2022’s Renaissance spotlighted her as a global MC throwing the […]
With Revelations, River Shook (formerly Sarah Shook, though the band name remains the same) again elegizes the underbelly of American life, all the while basking in country-pop hooks. Shook exudes that mix of badassery and fatigue so well navigated in […]
On the heels of Big Thief’s opus, 2022’s Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (ND review) and her mercurial solo diptych, 2020’s Songs and Instrumentals, Adrianne Lenker releases her latest non-band venture, Bright Future. Throughout the set, Lenker […]
With her latest LP, All Is Forgiven, Lilli Lewis draws from various tried-and-true templates while offering a sequence notably more introspective than on her previous albums, including 2020’s My American Heart (essay) and 2021’s Americana. The result is her most […]
