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- Record Label: Thirty Tigers
- Release Date: May 13, 2014
- Summary: The second full-length release for the country singer was produced by Dave Cobb.
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- Record Label: Thirty Tigers
- Genre(s): Country, Pop/Rock
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 0 out of 10
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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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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 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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MojoSep 12, 2014A great country music record. Nothing less. [Oct 2014, p.91]
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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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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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Jun 11, 2014These nine songs are dusty and determined, stoic ruminations on hard luck and happenstance.
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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