The acclaimed Nashville star’s follow-up to 2018’s Golden Hour comes on the back of divorce from fellow musician Ruston Kelly, so it’s a bittersweet but at times beautiful cross between country, rock, pop and R&B. “He still needs me … but the truth is I can probably make it on my own,” she sings on the mellow Good Wife. The album jumps between the upbeat (Cherry Blossom) and the downhearted (Simple Times - an awkward one set shopping with the girls in the mall), and still has some classic old-school country relationship material, such as on Breadwinner: “He wants a breadwinner / He wants your dinner / Until he ain’t hungry any more.” Justified opens with a radio announcer with a wry comment about the problems of love and the road ahead, and it’s a upbeat, rather lovely piece of acoustic songwriting. The title track typifies what she recently described as a “rollercoaster of emotion” beginning with the line “and then the darkness came”. At times ethereal, sometimes a little artificial, but the quality of the writing and production is still there. Out on Polydor/Interscope Records/MCA Nashville.
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