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"Let It Roll" is the second album by American country music group Midland. It was released on August 23, 2019 via Big Machine Records. The album includes the single "Mr. Lonely".
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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. Lead single “Mr. Lonely,” a rollicking honky-tonk jam about a loverman who “all the girls are talkin’ about,” sounds like Dwight Yoakam answering George Strait’s “The Fireman,” while “21st Century Honky Tonk American Band” — in spite of its title — has more in common with the FM-rock guitar heroics of AC/DC and the thunderous drums of John Bonham.
But things get really interesting when Midland slow things down a bit: “Cheatin’ Songs” mines the smooth country-soul of Ronnie Milsap and “Put the Hurt on Me” wafts into the same dreamy headspace as Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game,” putting a spotlight on the trio’s lovely layered harmonies. “Cheatin’ By the Rules” is plain wonderful, coming on like Billy Joel before morphing into Warren Zevon as Wystrach lays out some strict guidelines for two pragmatic adults finding some passion outside their marriages. “We both got somebody/We lost the fire for/That ain’t no reason to treat ’em cruel,” he sings, with nary a trace of the anguish usually found in cheating songs.
Reviewed by Jon Freeman for rollingstone.com.
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