Let It Roll
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Let It Roll
Let It Roll is the second studio album by American country music group Midland. It was released on August 23, 2019 via Big Machine Records.-"Wikipedia"
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Rolling Stone
Let It Roll, the group’s second album, maintains that immaculately disheveled approach, expanding Wystrach, Duddy, and bandmate Jess Carson’s stylistic palette in new and interesting ways. It’s a surprising curveball, and a statement that the group’s fluid musical identity is a feature, not a bug.
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Saving Country Music
Midland will never be the authentic Austin honky tokers they tout themselves to be. But they can be authentic to themselves, which is the challenge we all face when trying to find ourselves, when trying to win acceptance from the world at large, while also trying to carve out our unique place in it. And if they did, it would allow their music to reach an even wider audience of true country fans who want to like their music through all the trepidation. Because the music is there.
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Variety
The country band's second album is as clever as it is nostalgic, mixing witty spins on Conway Twitty-style cheating songs with '70s mellow gold.
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The Austin Chronicle
Despite easy-listening atrocity "Lost in the Night," Let It Roll sparkles with more gems than the locals' custom suits.
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Sounds like Nashville
Let It Roll, Midland’s enjoyable second full-length album, is squared away to please all those who reside in the camp of folks who prefer their favored artists not stray too far from any previously winning formulas. If in fact, as the cliché goes, history repeats itself, then the Texas-based band is in for another exciting year most likely, as Let it Roll could easily be named On the Rocks: The Refill.
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Six Shooter Country
The resulting album is a joy to listen to. Kicking off with the anthemic title track, Midland set us off free and easy down the road. The band said this record is the story of the last couple of years of relentless touring, and that comes across from the first track right through to Playboys, a song about hitting the stage every night. Wailing slide guitars and a driving acoustic guitar, along with the band’s famous harmonies give this album an even stronger nod to the Eagles than its predecessor did. Long-time fans of the band will be pleased to hear Fourteen Gears make an appearance.
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Entertainment Focus
Let It Roll may not be a million miles stylistically from On the Rocks but it’s so damn good you don’t really care. I was a little disappointed by the tracks released ahead of the album initially but when you listen to them in the context of the record, they work brilliantly. Midland have the biggest personality out of anyone in the Country genre right now and for my money, they’re making the best music too.
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Rough Stock
Midland pushes all the right buttons with Let It Roll, both musically and lyrically. Thank your lucky stars a group this good is so cool and radio friendly. Midland is exactly what radio needs right now.
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Taste of Country
On Let It Roll, Midland manage to avoid the dreaded "sophomore slump" by relying on what makes them so damn compelling in the first place: complete and utter commitment to the theme. The beauty of Midland's super twang, rhinestone and fringe, early '80s schtick, as it were, is that they believe every ounce of it — and that makes their music believable in turn. We're all in on the ruse, and the cleverest part of the ruse is that it's not a ruse at all. Love it or hate it, it's objectively compelling.
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USA Country UK
It’s not often that an album will blow you away from start to finish, but for trio Midland, that is certainly the case. It is even all the more impressive when the album is their sophomore album and follows on from their incredible debut album “On The Rocks“.
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NPR
[Let It Roll is] an evolved version of the first album. The arrangements are elevated, the vocal performances — not just the harmonies, but the leads — are better and took less time to get to in the studio. The powers of the three voices coming together, I feel like they are mixed louder on this album.
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All Music
As a production, it's pretty difficult to resist; it's as supple and comforting as a favorite old chair. The sound is so alluring, it's easy to overlook how many songs simply glide by without ever quite catching hold. Maybe that's due to how Midland's touch is so light it's nearly invisible. Mark Wystrach has a pleasant, amiable voice that lends the trio's songs the slightest hint of gravel, but it -- along with the harmonies of Jess Carson and Cameron Duddy -- is a mere element in the warm, enveloping production of Let It Roll.
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