4/25/2023 0 Comments Slow burn zac brown band![]() It didn’t help that “Same Boat” was a pretty terrible attempt at recreating “Chicken Fried” or that “Old Love Song” copied the newer trend of artists creating songs by name-dropping other ones. ![]() ![]() We’ve been down this road before with a little rebound project from them in 2017 called Welcome Home, a half-hearted attempt to try and placate fans and further the wrong assumption that they only want straightforward neotraditional country music out of this band. So while I understand why other hardcore fans have been excited to watch this band slightly return to their roots ever since the release of “The Man Who Loves You The Most” last year, I was skeptical. The package in which they choose to sell it has never been the issue.īut the difference between, say, Jekyll + Hyde and The Owl is that the former felt like a passionate yet still messy embrace of new ideas while the latter felt like an implosion fueled by Brown’s own hubris, and when going back and realizing how much his divorce shaped that album … well, it’s telling of how much they’ve tried to rebound from it ever since – just saying. Uncaged was one of my favorite albums of the entire 2010s.Īnd I’ve just always been left wishing that the band – no, scratch that, Brown himself – would understand that the disconnect between fan reception and what they choose to embrace doesn’t stem from their experimentation, but rather their execution of it and how they’ve slipped away from the core of what’s made them so great. Because if there’s a reason I wanted to untangle whatever the follow-up would be, it’s that I still remember those first three albums four, if you want to count The Grohl Sessions. And as one of the nicer critics toward that album – if you consider a 4/10 score “nice” – I admit I should have gone even further with my rage against it just like everyone else did. The band’s 2019 album, The Owl, should have tanked their entire career – a horribly executed cacophony of ideas in sound and lyrical themes that not only was the furthest thing imaginable from what one would expect from a Zac Brown Band album, but also just terrible no matter how you sliced it, not helped by the titular lead singer doubling down on it a week after with a solo project that was only slightly less terrible. Coming off of their last album, I’m surprised we have another project from the Zac Brown Band at all, and I’m even more surprised we got it as soon as we did.Īnd I don’t think I need to go into further detail why.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |