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- Summary: The eighth full-length release for the country singer-songwriter features guest appearances from Elle King, Maren Morris and Trombone Shorty.
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- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Country
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| The moon outside, too bright Those blinds, yeah, let's just keep 'em closed You know my hands, they know where to go To find your fingertips, trace... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Jun 10, 2016A record slicker and straighter than its predecessors. Call it maturation as much as a shift in aesthetics.
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Jun 10, 2016No one can say Black isn’t ambitious, and it’s nuanced too; easily Bentley’s most personal, affecting release yet.
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Jun 10, 2016What lifts Black past merely being a good concept album is an old-school musicality that never takes a backseat to modern-country conventionality.
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Aug 2, 2016Black feels like the embodiment of the masculine midlife crisis, with a similar lack of self-awareness on the part of the protagonist, even when he’s expressing realizations and moments of self-discovery.
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Jun 10, 2016Echoey wall-of-sound sheen, soft-rock flourishes, guitar bombast, and omnipresent programming predominate. Presumably the intention was to create a sonic mood to match the album’s thematic concerns, but too often the execution leaves the songs sounding plodding and inert.
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Jun 14, 2016
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