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- Summary: The first new solo release in seven years for the Austin singer-songwriter was written in three days.
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- Record Label: Mute US
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 5 out of 12
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Mixed: 7 out of 12
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Apr 16, 2018The Straight Hits! might not have the visceral punch of The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads or the openness of Last of the County Gentlemen but it has more than its fair share of moments, even if Pearson admits breaking several of the five rules, but obeys an unwritten Sixth Pillar: musical rules are made to be broken.
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Apr 13, 2018Each track here employs "straight" in the title, but Josh T. Pearson remains crooked as a bag of snakes.
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Jun 20, 2018This is an album--much like its predecessor--that's utterly pure of heart. The jovial uplift of those first few songs might, at first, come off as affectation, but as a metaphor for life—how the exuberance of youth and young love and ambition falters and fades into an existential black hole, giving way to work and bills and the inevitable death of everyone you know and love--it couldn't be more incisive. A welcome return.
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Apr 11, 2018This music’s unhinged, pinballing molecules have a wild energy, here and there.
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Apr 13, 2018Too often the feeling remains that the joke isn't funny enough to sustain a whole record, especially one that follows a masterpiece.
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Apr 12, 2018Josh T Pearson’s latest experiments have made for his most uneven record yet, but among the less characterful songs, there’s still some of that old miserable magic to relish within the directness of it all. The Straight Hits! may not be his finest, but maybe the purge was a necessary one.
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MojoApr 10, 2018The Straight Hits! is front-loaded with positivist rockers, but these are ramshackle. ... The second half mercifully reverts to Pearson's true calling as a funereal balladeer; even then, the transition's too jarring to cohere to the conceptual/titular framework. [May 2018, p.90]
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Apr 14, 2018Straight listening from start 2 finish from Texas gentlemen Josh T Pearson. Straight 10
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