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Nov 5, 2018What makes Interstate Gospel so invigorating is hearing how Lambert, Monroe, and Presley mesh as both songwriters and singers. Their time apart has only strengthened their bond, resulting in a fully realized and resonant record that is their best to date.
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Nov 13, 2018No matter how smoothly the songwriting flows, nothing’s easy on Interstate Gospel. Lambert, Monroe, and Presley know that, yet they take on an array of hard topics and reel off one-liners and hooks as if that’s enough to get us through, which it just might be.
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Nov 2, 2018The last two Pistol Annies albums ranged from very good to brilliant; this album seems to be a breakthrough, a masterpiece that extends their already formidable gifts.
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Nov 5, 2018Like a lot of great country music, the songs here are staked not on novelty but on convention, on familiar stereotypes captured in unfamiliar depth. ... As always, the premium remains on real talk, which the band dispenses with the unsparing resolve of someone who’s been listening the whole time but has not been paid attention to until now.
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Nov 12, 2018Miranda Lambert, and Ashley Monroe seek to spread the truth of their own lives and the lives of those around them, and just like those church signs, offer a place of comfort in the midst of brokenness. The Gospel of Pistol Annies is not one filled with saccharine self-help soundbites. ... Instead it's a sermon fueled by heartbreak and regret.
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Nov 2, 2018Unlike past efforts, where their narratives relied on a heavy dose of dark humor, the songs on Interstate Gospel convey a much more intimate personal urgency. The result, from the housewife harmony blues on “Best Years of My Life” to Lambert’s haunting post-divorce balladry on “Masterpiece,” is a sharply-rendered sketch of bruised hearts and shaken souls that amounts to the group’s most moving work to date.
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Nov 2, 2018There’s so little light here that the cheeky Sugar Daddy is forgivable--plus there’s a forthrightness to their exhortations to “saddle up and ride” that adds to their theme of women without time to waste.
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UncutNov 15, 2018["Cheyenne" is] keenly observed and beautifully realised, which goes for most everything on Interstate Gospel. [Jan 2019, p.20]
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Nov 2, 2018It shouldn’t come as any huge surprise that in a year when Ashley McBryde and Kacey Musgraves have been responsible for the genre’s finest records, a strength-in-female-numbers Pistol Annies collection would turn out to be 2018’s best country album. As an alternately droll and affecting wallow in and cure for the blues, it beats the hell out of a recreational Percocet.
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Positive: 21 out of 25
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Mixed: 1 out of 25
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Negative: 3 out of 25
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Nov 5, 2018
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Mar 28, 2020An incredible album by one of the best country groups of all times. They always made good albums and good songs. Love all of them.