![]() “Rosalía’s new album, El Mal Querer, is less rigorous than its predecessor, though even easier to like,” writes Elias Leight. Read Our Live Review: Pistol Annies Enthrall at Jubilant Ryman Auditorium Show ![]() The result, from the housewife harmony blues on ‘Best Years of My Life’ to Lambert’s haunting post-divorce balladry on ‘Masterpiece,’ is a sharply-rendered sketch of bruised hearts and shaken souls that amounts to the group’s most moving work to date.” ![]() But unlike past efforts, where the narratives were mostly distant character sketches and the messy difficulties portrayed therein relied on a heavy dose of dark country humor, the songs on Interstate Gospel convey a much more intimate personal urgency. Their songs are populated by men and women struggling with prescription medication, marriage, mid-life crises, malaise and marijuana. On paper, the Annies’ latest, like its predecessors, focuses on the type of small-town domestic drama the group has become known for. “The Pistol Annies’ solution? Doubling down on the roots-blend they’ve honed over the better part of the past decade, merging Ashley Monroe’s East TN bluegrass roots, Angaleena Presley’s hardscrabble Kentucky country-rock and Miranda Lambert’s Texas honky-tonk. ![]() “The ethos of the Pistol Annies, who steep their classicist country - rife with despair and misfortune - in rootsy arrangements, has not been welcomed within the mainstream confines of the genre in some time,” writes Jonathan Bernstein. EDITOR’S PICK: Pistol Annies, Interstate Gospel ![]()
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