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ALBUM REVIEW: Sophie Gault Lets Her Freak Flag Fly On ‘Unhinged’

ALBUM REVIEW: Sophie Gault Lets Her Freak Flag Fly On ‘Unhinged’

“I’m nobody’s pocket change,” sings Sophie Gault on “Pocket Change,” a kiss-off befitting the rough-around-the-edges sound Gault has been perfecting for years, this time on her latest record, Unhinged. Gault’s voice is a pretty snarl, its soft and abrasive sides in beguiling harmony, ideal for telling an

ALBUM REVIEW, What We Missed: A New Horizon, With The Soundscapes of ‘Earthstar Mountain’

ALBUM REVIEW, What We Missed: A New Horizon, With The Soundscapes of ‘Earthstar Mountain’

Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series

ALBUM REVIEW: Courtney Hartman Assembles Her Village for ‘With You’

ALBUM REVIEW: Courtney Hartman Assembles Her Village for ‘With You’

That old adage “it takes a village” is, quite literally, what made it possible for Courtney Hartman to make her latest album With You, a soft study of motherhood and all the beautiful and harrowing ways it upends a life. Hartman did what might be the hardest thing a new

ALBUM REVIEW: The Sound of Something Wild: Winterpills’ Triumphant Return with 'This is How We Dance'

ALBUM REVIEW: The Sound of Something Wild: Winterpills’ Triumphant Return with 'This is How We Dance'

Despite decades of making music together, Winterpills still feel like a well-kept secret. But if ever a song could capture the attention they so deserve, it’s “Wild,” the opening track off the band’s latest album This is How We Dance. The powerful anthem builds with heavy guitars and

ALBUM REVIEW: Tristen Finds Harmony between Domesticity and Desire on ‘Unpopular Music’

ALBUM REVIEW: Tristen Finds Harmony between Domesticity and Desire on ‘Unpopular Music’

Despite its cheeky self-deprecating title, Tristen’s fifth studio album Unpopular Music is a testament to the career she’s built out of making criminally underrated, perfect pop music. If the goal of great pop music is to bring people together in collective earworm joy under a big top, Tristen

ALBUM REVIEW: Alexa Rose’s Atmospheric Hope After Helene

ALBUM REVIEW: Alexa Rose’s Atmospheric Hope After Helene

There is something about having your home entirely upended that makes you homesick for just about any place you go. Seeing the routines, people going about their lives, the mundanity, could all feel especially romantic when all that you’ve counted on to be consistent goes away. “I’ll fall

ALBUM REVIEW: Jonny Fritz Is Still Goofing — And Still Getting to the Point on ‘Debbie Downers’

ALBUM REVIEW: Jonny Fritz Is Still Goofing — And Still Getting to the Point on ‘Debbie Downers’

Jonny Fritz long ago established himself as a kind of reliable clown of country music, recording genuinely great songs that always toed the line of absurdity. A master of people-watching and zooming in on the funniest details of the mundane—the gravity of trash pick-up day, the characters that frequent