Lamentations
| American Aquarium
Lamentations
On the sixth night, he debuted the band's new album, Lamentations(New West Records), released on Friday. As Barham performed skeletal, acoustic versions of the songs, he kept reaching back to the title track, “Me + Mine (Lamentations),” to explain the album's theme. -Wikipedia
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Six Shooter Country
Lamentations is a superb follow up to Things Change, an album that we loved, and Barham et al certainly don’t slow down here. With Shooter Jennings on production duties, the record retains that hard-edged sound we expect from American Aquarium with a few different sonic elements, such as the introduction of a horn section thrown in.
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Saving Country Music
Lamentations is once again a testament to B.J. Barham’s insistence to not just refuse to shield our eyes from the growing entropy in American life, but to inspire us all to persevere through it and to rise above the cards we’re dealt, just like he has done continuously throughout his career. 8/10
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Your Life in a Song
It is rare indeed for a band going into their 9th album to feel on the brink of a breakthrough, but ‘Lamentations’ may just be it. 10 tracks and no fillers. The mark of a great album.
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Americana Highways
Barham’s an intense guy. On Lamentations his focus and execution is laser sharp. 10 songs, 46 minutes. Meet your favorite album of 2020.
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All Music
Perhaps it's a subtle shift, but the gangly gait of the band does help give Barham's bittersweet songs a welcome muscle and a pulse. 3.5/5
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Think Country Music
I’m hearing something new with every listen which is always something I look for in an album and it’s one of the things that keeps drawing me back to this release.
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Off the Record
This may just be Barham’s most compelling record yet.
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