Country
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A buffet of shit: Justin Timberlake’s new album is most likely the most horrendous cross-section of contemporary sounds you’re going to hear this year.
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Though a few missteps keep Ruins from being First Aid Kit’s best album, it’s still packed with well-written, well-performed, and well-produced folk pop songs.
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Chris Stapleton drops a second album of quality contemporary country in 2017.
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On Rainbow, Kesha artfully reinvents herself without losing the fun, wild energy that made her such an appealing pop figure in the first place.
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Lady Gaga’s rootsier sound and image on Joanne is a welcome change of pace, though she doesn’t always commit to the new direction.
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Lady Gaga unexpectedly pulls off a folksy ballad with this new single from her forthcoming album Joanne, out October 21 via Interscope.
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Beyoncé drops her most conceptual and mature album yet — as well as what’s likely to be the best pop record of the year.
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Singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson comes through with the classiest country album I’ve heard in a while.
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Idahoan singer-songwriter Bart Budwig dropped this quaint single today.
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Masterminded by producer Dave Cobb, this compilation brings together some of the best and brightest voices contemporary alternative country has to offer.
