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Feb 26, 2016The songs on How To Dance--while immediately ingratiating--reveal more depth with each spin, opening up entire universes within the backwoods. The lyrics allude to mythology and folktales, and as McEntire sings them, it’s easy to imagine her with her eyes closed, receiving the words from some netherworld.
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Apr 4, 2016How to Dance is a quietly remarkable work from a group that can make modesty and excellence coexist.
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Mar 16, 2016Although the album pushes the envelope lyrically, the music doesn't always elevate the ideas as much as it could. Mount Moriah's deftly woven, loose Americana is more a vessel for McEntire's poetry than anything else.
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Feb 23, 2016It’s almost as if they didn’t need the help from guest luminaries such as Angel Olsen, Jeb Bishop, pedal steel player Allyn Love and superstar engineer Brian Paulson (who mixed the album with Miller), but perhaps it’s those additions which make How to Dance such a consistently strong and clean record of a band with a unique southern voice.
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Feb 23, 2016This is an album to savor from a band that continues to grow and to surprise.
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Feb 23, 2016How to Dance is most invigorating when it sweeps the band’s easy-rolling tunes off of the front porch and drops them at the roadhouse.