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The Unraveling

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"I've always said that all of our records are political but..that 'politics is personal,'" Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood has stated of the band's 12th release. "With that in mind, this album is especially personal.” Every blight on the current American landscape is name-checked, from immigrant mistreatment ("Babies in Cages") to incels ("Grievance Merchants") to the hopelessness of mass shootings ("Thoughts and Prayers"). "21st Century USA" is a list of modern-day devastations: pay-day loans, wage inequality, credit-card debt, evangelical hypocrisy, pain pills. "With Big Brother watching me always, why must I always feel so alone," the lyrics intone over an amiable country-rock beat. The bleak portraits are often set against Americana sounds that recall Uncle Tupelo's heartland fervor ("Slow Ride Argument"), Springsteen's red-blooded rock 'n' roll ("Armageddon's Back in Town") and "Murmur"-era REM's earnest twang ("Thoughts and Prayers"). Appropriately, on "Heroin Again," a fed-up lament of the current opioid epidemic that echoes the drug damage of the '90s, the bass stomps and guitar chugs like a lost grunge anthem. The Unraveling isn't the feel-good album of the year, but it sure does sound good. © Shelly Ridenour / Qobuz

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1
Rosemary with a Bible and a Gun
00:03:29

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Patterson Hood, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

2
Armageddon's Back in Town
00:03:48

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Patterson Hood, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

3
Slow Ride Argument
00:03:19

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Mike Cooley, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

4
Thoughts and Prayers
00:05:21

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Patterson Hood, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

5
21st Century USA
00:04:14

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Patterson Hood, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

6
Heroin Again
00:03:54

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Patterson Hood, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

7
Babies in Cages
00:05:33

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Patterson Hood, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

8
Grievance Merchants
00:04:08

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Mike Cooley, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

9
Awaiting Resurrection
00:08:38

Drive-By Truckers, MainArtist - Patterson Hood, Composer

2020 ATO Records, LCC 2020 ATO Records, LCC

Album review

"I've always said that all of our records are political but..that 'politics is personal,'" Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood has stated of the band's 12th release. "With that in mind, this album is especially personal.” Every blight on the current American landscape is name-checked, from immigrant mistreatment ("Babies in Cages") to incels ("Grievance Merchants") to the hopelessness of mass shootings ("Thoughts and Prayers"). "21st Century USA" is a list of modern-day devastations: pay-day loans, wage inequality, credit-card debt, evangelical hypocrisy, pain pills. "With Big Brother watching me always, why must I always feel so alone," the lyrics intone over an amiable country-rock beat. The bleak portraits are often set against Americana sounds that recall Uncle Tupelo's heartland fervor ("Slow Ride Argument"), Springsteen's red-blooded rock 'n' roll ("Armageddon's Back in Town") and "Murmur"-era REM's earnest twang ("Thoughts and Prayers"). Appropriately, on "Heroin Again," a fed-up lament of the current opioid epidemic that echoes the drug damage of the '90s, the bass stomps and guitar chugs like a lost grunge anthem. The Unraveling isn't the feel-good album of the year, but it sure does sound good. © Shelly Ridenour / Qobuz

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