- Record Label: Thirty Tigers
- Release Date: May 13, 2014
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May 21, 2014As an artist of uncommon ability, he has learned from its hallowed lineage and storied past that in order for it to evolve, it cannot be reined in; it must be free to roam in order to create its future. His visionary work on this album opens the gate wide on that frontier.
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May 21, 2014Simpson lets his band, and his songs, do the talking on Metamodern Sounds, which is surely one of the very best straight up country records of 2014.
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Jun 19, 2014Metamodern Sounds in Country Music uses the genre's classic narratives to obscure right and wrong in the search for higher truths.
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MojoSep 12, 2014A great country music record. Nothing less. [Oct 2014, p.91]
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May 21, 2014If you don’t like country music, don’t bother. But if you do have an ear for Waylon and Willie and the boys, then you’ll find plenty to love.
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May 21, 2014Nothing else on Metamodern is quite so bold or quite so dense as “Turtles All the Way Down”, but Simpson comes across as a man deeply dissatisfied with the easy answers country music typically passes along as wisdom.
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May 21, 2014Metamodern Sounds In Country Music doesn’t carry the same unfiltered, raw energy as his debut album, High Top Mountain, did. But, where he was bottling lightning, he’s now cleaning up the aftermath of the storm, patching together what works and smoothing everything over.
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Jul 1, 2014Where Simpson truly scores is in the ease with which he ponders life’s bigger questions while couching them in familiar country language and sounds.
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May 30, 2014With his new LP, Kentucky's Sturgill Simpson is taking it metamodern.
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