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"The Bird and The Rifle" is the eighth full length studio album by Lori McKenna, released on July 29, 2016, through CN Records. Despite the album's limited commercial success (it never charted on the Billboard 200), it earned critical acclaim and was nominated for Best Americana Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
The Bird and the Rifle received highly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 82 out of 100, which indicates "universal acclaim" based on 4 reviews.
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Reviewed by pitchfork
The songs on her latest album don’t veer too far from anything she has done before, but The Bird & the Rifle may do for McKenna, career-wise, what Traveller did for veteran songwriter Chris Stapleton last year. McKenna has a remarkable facility for conveying the inner lives of women trapped in soured relationships; that may not be an easy sell for the conservative playlists of country radio, but it makes for one of the most accomplished and devastating singer-songwriter albums of the year.
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