Album Review: These United States by These United States

Are These United States the anti-alt-country band? Their music certainly is enough to give listeners pause for thought. While Ryan Adams and Lucero have gotten a lot of traction out of crying in their beers over haggard and forlorn country rock, the Brooklyn band dares to look on the sunnier side of the dust bowl. It’s a bold strategy considering how much success their peers have had living up to the sad luck and hard-living ways of their outlaw country forebearers, but These United States carry themselves with such hope and wistfulness that you eventually forgive them for not being heartbroken and miserable.

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