- Record Label: Slate Creek Records
- Release Date: Oct 14, 2014
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Jan 30, 2015The songwriting class shows. In addition, the musicianship is top notch.
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Jan 30, 2015Though the occasional use of spoken word on the record jars uncomfortably, this debut is about as accomplished as one could reasonably expect.
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Jan 30, 2015The backings are polished modern country, but Presley’s vocal and lyrical touch are exceptional on an impressive state-of-the-nation album.
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UncutJan 30, 2015Presley has a wry, modern take on country music. [Mar 2015, p.81]
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Jan 30, 2015American Middle Class, her debut album, comes fully formed, clear about its purpose.
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Jan 30, 2015This is a rich, deceptively relaxed portrait of working-class life in America in 2014 and it will linger for some time to come.
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Jan 30, 2015American Middle Class is a focused collection of songs.
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Jan 30, 2015The whole album is filled with the aching melancholy of wanting something and never getting it, or never wanting someone because you will never get it. How everyone is both broke and broke down, the corruption and failure of the market rotting from the bottom and squeezing from the top, is profoundly realized here.
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Jan 30, 2015On the first half of her impressive solo debut, Presley fills her disappearing middle-class blues with sharp, compassionate tales of unfulfilled pensions and steep tuition bills. Later on, the bona fide coal miner's daughter changes gears with a series of vulnerable country-soul ballads.
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