Drive-By Truckers
The New OK
Release Date: Oct 2, 2020
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Southern Rock
Record label: ATO
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Album Review: The New OK by Drive-By Truckers
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 4.0/5
Let me know son, when you've had enough In 2016, I reviewed American Band through the lens of the political turmoil facing the United States at that moment in history. Even amid the highly contentious election between Donald John Trump and Hillary Rodham Clinton - where issues like corruption, racism, police brutality, and gun control were debated at length - I was still able to write about the hellish scenario with a hopeful slant. I imagined a future where my children would write research papers in school referring to 2016 as a moment of national reckoning, and a subsequent turning point where sweeping changes were made in the name of humanity and equality.
Based on rating 8/10
Musicians play music. That's what they do. Unless they suddenly can't go out and perform for people because, say, there's a global pandemic that has almost entirely shut down live music. Life in a divided nation under the rule of Donald Trump was already weighing heavy on the minds of the Drive-By Truckers on 2016's American Band and 2020's The Unraveling, and being stuck at home and unable to tour, with little to do but watch their nation burn, hasn't made them feel any better.
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