Southside
| Sam Hunt
Southside
Southside is the second studio album by American country music singer Sam Hunt. It was released through MCA Nashville on April 3, 2020. It will be supported by the Southside Summer Tour 2020, which will feature guests Kip Moore, Travis Denning, Brandi Cyrus, and Big Loud Records recording artist Ernest, and begin in Charlotte, North Carolina on May 28, 2020. -Wikipedia
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Saving Country Music
Sam Hunt will sell some records, and radio will play his singles. But Southside will soon be forgotten for the same reasons Sam Hunt is remembered—for not straddling lines, but erasing them, along with the important diversity and variety of creative expression that makes genres important, and country a unique expression of American music.
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Sounds Like Nashville
The modern trailblazer feels revitalized on Southside, moving the ticker forward enough to indicate that he has evolved while solidifying his ability to establish a distinct sound and lyrical prowess that continues to captivate the country audience.
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Rolling Stone
Hunt’s an innovator who has remade country in his own image and also figured out how to reclaim its past in ways that don’t sound tired or overdone.
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Slate
For those of us who were rooting for Hunt to really push the bounds of what country is capable of, Southside may sound like it barely goes the distance. But by turning its musical hybridity from a novelty into a vehicle to convey that kind of grown-up content—with all the dirt and noise and hurt it implies—it does something better. It proves that fork in the road can lead to someplace a person (or a genre) might want to settle in and stay awhile.
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The Post
SOUTHSIDE is comprised of tracks that will have listeners not only dancing, but reflecting, making for a pleasantly profound sophomore album.
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Entertainment Focus
Southside is packed with big songs and it’s going to catapult Sam Hunt even further into the stratosphere. You can get hung up on trying to pigeon hole him or you can celebrate his ability to break the mould and do something different. He’s a true innovator and that’s abundantly clear on Southside.
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Slant Magazine
he album boasts some genuine earworms, but its lyrical content is sophomoric.
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Sputnik Music
If you’ve heard even a single country song with a snap beat and more than 15 minutes of pop radio in the last 7 years, rest assured that not only is Southside nothing good, it’s not even anything new.
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The Needle Drop
Southside is hard to forget for all the wrong reasons.
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All Music
Southside is: mellow, multi-purpose country-pop designed to soundtrack good times at home, on the road, at the office, or at a bar.
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Spectrum Pulse
This is lazy, crass, manipulative as f***, and doesn’t even serve its target audiences well - what girl wants to be described and gaslit like this, and what guy wants to identify with the sullen, self-obsessed dumbassery that this is?
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Stereogum
It’s the kind of hard-won epiphany that only comes in time, kicking off an album that was well worth the wait.
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RoughStock
Sam Hunt is a unique star in country music and in a world of sameness, it’s nice that he’s around making records like Southside.
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EW
Southside is, for most of its 12 songs, a showcase for Hunt's affable charm and playlist-era approach to making music.
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The Reviews Are In
It’s here now, and if you liked any of the songs you’d heard in the lead-up, or if you are looking to introduce crossover/non-traditional country music to friends, give it a spin.
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Your Life in a Song
The project will be as divisive as ever, blurring the genre lines more than ever before, but love him or hate him, Sam Hunt is the best at what he does, and ‘Southside’ is a successful progression from one of the biggest albums the genre has ever seen in ‘Montevallo’.
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American Songwriter
Southside, produced primarily by Crowell, blends the familiar (“Young Once,” “That Ain’t Beautiful”) with enjoyable new additions (“Breaking Up was Easy in the ‘90s”). Hunt is at his most exciting when he fuses the past and the present (“Let It Down” truly shines bright) into ambitious creations that hint at even greater promise ─ but his second offering is largely a mixed bag.
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Country Standard Time
Although "Southside" isn't so pop that you can't tell Hunt is a country artist, the music is rarely compelling, comforting nor surprising. "Hard To Forget" may be a weird amalgamation, but at least it's innovative. The same can't be said for the rest of the music, which tends to wear down the listener after a while. Also, rather than singing these songs, Hunt vocalizes with a whiney world-weariness most reminiscent of Drake.
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The Michigan Daily
With Southside, Hunt holds onto his titles: the first mainstream country rapper, the most controversial artist in Nashville and, yes, the “Drake of country music.” But he’s sloppy about it. Hopefully it won’t take another six years for him to get a little more vulnerable.
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Lake Central News
After a six year hiatus, Hunt was able to make a comeback with his new hits and tell stories throughout the lyrics as well. The difficulty that Hunt faced through the years with his significant others shows his true self, and the songs he wrote were able to express that to the world.
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Global News
Southside’s experiments are made with enviable effortlessness: It’s a little bit tough across the edges, not self-consciously provocative. Hunt doubled down on his preliminary mission—making hip-hop and R&B in nation sound hip as an alternative of hokey—and it paid off with this assortment of songs which are, greater than anything, enjoyable.
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Pitchfork
The Nashville star blends genres with charm and style on his first new album in five years, a marker of what modern commercial country can do at its heights. 7.5/10
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RHS Today
This album was so good I want to listen to it a thousand times. The way he harmonized with the up-beat rhythms really got me in a better mood. I really love how the whole album is all threaded together. All the songs go with one another and it tells a story. You can feel his emotion and passion, and that is what makes this album so satisfying.
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The Ringer
The country star’s new album is ambitious, even if the songs are at their best when they’re at their humblest.
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Off the Record
the production side of the record is under-baked and fails to rise to the hype of his debut works. It was long wait for the second album, but was it really worth it? I personally was underwhelmed.
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