Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine. @Allmusic @Pitchfork etc. [email protected] https://t.co/YlG5yssa0A
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1 week ago |
pitchfork.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Consider If You Asked for a Picture as the second chapter in an ongoing novel chronicling the trials and tribulations of life in your 20s. On Sabrina Teitelbaum’s second album as Blondshell, which arrives two years after her eponymous debut, Teitelbaum is still haunted by the past and stumbling into the kinds of bad decisions that fueled Blondshell.
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1 week ago |
pitchfork.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Although it isn’t billed that way, Oh What a Beautiful World belongs to a certain strain of Willie Nelson albums dedicated to the songbook of a particular songwriter. It's a tradition Willie inaugurated in the late 1970s, when he released tributes to his honky tonk hero Lefty Frizzell and his fellow country maverick Kris Kristofferson, and has continued to the present day, saluting Harlan Howard with 2023’s I Don’t Know a Thing About Love.
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1 week ago |
sterlewine.substack.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Running a little longer than 35 minutes, Evangeline Vs. The Machine appears to be a deliberate retreat from Heart & Soul, the overstuffed triple album that brought a close to Eric Church's golden decade. That's not quite true. Pumped up with enough choirs and strings to credibly call this prog, Evangeline Vs. The Machine tackles big issues—Hurricane Helene, gun violence, etc.—in a big fashion, blending old-timey allusions with classic rock sensibility and a contemporary country aesthetic.
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3 weeks ago |
pitchfork.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine
“Want it, you want it, you want it, you want it/But you’ll never get ahead of it,” fantasy of a broken heart announce sweetly at the outset of “Passion Clouds,” the opening song on Chaos Practitioner.
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4 weeks ago |
sterlewine.substack.com | Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Turnpike Troubadours—The Price of Admission [2025]The Price of Admission, the seventh album from the Turnpike Troubadours, arrived without warning last week. Its sudden release stands in stark contrast to the band's slow crawl to A Cat In The Rain, the 2023 album that found the group returning to action after a prolonged absence.
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RT @sterlewine: Over at Pitchfork, I review If You Asked For A Picture, the second album by the 90s-besotted singer/songwriter Blondshell.…
Over at Pitchfork, I review If You Asked For A Picture, the second album by the 90s-besotted singer/songwriter Blondshell. https://t.co/9tLVuTMDVO
RT @sterlewine: Over at Pitchfork Oh What A Beautiful World, a tribute to Rodney Crowell by Willie Nelson that appealingly ambles and rambl…
