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- Summary: The surprise digital release from the alternative country band includes songs from recording sessions from the recently released, The Unraveling plus a few songs written while under the pandemic quarantine.
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- Record Label: ATO
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Southern Rock
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Positive: 9 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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UncutOct 16, 2020Electric guitars crackle at the edge of the mix like Caribbean lightning, Jay Gonzalez's "Oliver's Army" piano glittering in the gathering storm. "Tough To Go" is from the Memphis sessions. Doom-laden drumbeats, gloomy organ and blasts of wracked guitars punctuate a song about disenchantment, lost opportunities, stacked odds. [Dec 2020, p.32]
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Oct 9, 2020Combined with The Unraveling, The New OK is a powerful one-two punch to the gut from a band unafraid to lay their political stance out for the world to see. It’s a brave move.
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Oct 9, 2020Ghosts of Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett float among the slinky groove that could set out on the tide forever as it gorgeously gets the head bobbing and hips swaying around the only non-political track. Those lyrics are the exception though as the upbeat post-punk of “The Perilous Night” bubbles and bounces while sarcastically saying Amen to fascism on the rise, cars cutting down protesters and Red Square shining in the White House; it is a dance party at the end of the world with splashes of the Talking Heads mixed in.
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Oct 9, 2020The New OK sometimes feels uneven and precarious, which in this context is an asset rather than a failing; as a snapshot of America in October 2020, it's unnervingly accurate and devastatingly relatable, as well as a powerful set of work from a great American band.
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Dec 27, 2020At a time of such division, it’s a startlingly brave record and all the more necessary for it.
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Dec 21, 2020The result is a patchwork quilt of an album, stitched together from scraps gathered here and there—but then, those quilts are often the warmest, the most comforting. ... Especially after the unrelenting darkness of its predecessor, The New OK sounds all the more affecting for not being quite so dire.
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Rolling StoneDec 17, 2020Deliver typically gray tales of Trump-era American demise. [Dec 2020, p.70]
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Oct 24, 2020Terrible. Boring. Tuneless. Enough with the political preaching already. Three albums in a row of that crap. Please do better next time.
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