Old 97s-Twelfth-CD-FLAC-2020-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : Old 97's                                          
   Album       : Twelfth                                           
    Label       : ATO Records                                        
    Genre       : Country                                            
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2020-08-21                                         
   Quality     : 963 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 308.18 MB                                          
     Time        : 42:37 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/twelfth-mr00052 
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  1.  The Dropouts                                                   3:44 
  2.  This House Got Ghosts                                          3:46 
  3.  Turn Off The TV                                                2:44 
  4.  I Like You Better                                              4:41 
  5.  Happy Hour                                                     4:10 
  6.  Belmont Hotel                                                  2:46 
  7.  Confessional Boxing                                            3:12 
  8.  Diamonds On Neptune                                            3:07 
  9.  Our Year                                                       4:03 
  10. Bottle Rocket Baby                                             3:27 
  11. Absence (What We've Got)                                       3:21 
  12. Why Don't We Ever Say We're Sorry                              3:36 
     Rock & roll often has an unfortunate habit of locking musicians    
     into an extended adolescence, not surprising in a medium where     
     plenty of foolish behavior is not just acceptable but encouraged.  
     Though the Old 97's were hardly known for their bad habits, the    
     fact they were still singing songs about chasing women and         
     getting drunk decades into their career suggested that at least    
     creatively, they had a flexible attitude regarding maturity.       
     However, in the late 2010s fate gave the bandmembers a few         
     reminders that they weren't as young as they once were. Drummer    
     Philip Peeples had a brush with death following a skull fracture,  
     guitarist Ken Bethea started experiencing numbness and loss of     
     motor function in his hands that required spinal surgery, and      
     lead singer and main songwriter Rhett Miller faced up to a         
     drinking problem and gave up alcohol. (Bassist Murry Hammond       
     managed to escape unscathed.) 2020's Twelfth, a fitting title for  
     their 12th album, is the sound of a band who haven't given up on   
     the raucous mix of rock & roll and country accents that they've    
     made their own since their first LP arrived in 1994. Lyrically,    
     though, this music often deals with facing up to responsibility    
     and looking back at past mistakes with a new level of clarity.     
     "Vices make you hungry/And you never can get full," from "Our      
     Year," is a pithy rejoinder to the cheerful reprobate Miller       
     impersonated on 2014's Most Messed Up, while "The Dropouts" is an  
     uncharitable portrait of a man-child's lot in life, and the buzzy  
     guitars and pitiless self-examination of "Confessional Boxing" is  
     as candid as anything this band has ever recorded. (Even if        
     Miller is pursuing a one-night stand on "Diamonds on Neptune," he  
     leaves no doubt it won't go well and that she won't speak well of  
     him.) "I Like You Better," meanwhile, is the testimony of a man    
     who wants to be a better man for the woman he loves, and "Why      
     Don't We Ever Say We're Sorry," written and sung by Hammond, is a  
     simple but powerful statement of what's gone wrong and what he     
     needs to do right. There's plenty of great, satisfying twangy      
     rock on Twelfth, which is what we've come to expect from the Old   
     97's. There's also a level of self-awareness and maturity that's   
     new to them, and that makes Twelfth a brave and valuable release   
     from this great band.                                              

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