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- Summary: The latest full-length release from country singer-songwriter Tyler Childers was produced by Rick Rubin.
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- Record Label: RCA
- Genre(s): Country
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Jul 28, 2025The album is a thrilling, entirely sui generis statement of purpose that simultaneously closes the loop on Childers’ past (see the update on fan favorite “Nose on the Grindstone”) while pointing toward his boundless future. In the process, it establishes him as arguably the most singular and visionary artist in country music today.
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Jul 28, 2025By synthesizing a variety of sounds and themes into an unshakeable whole, Snipe Hunter is the rare album that is both an aesthetic and a thrillingly profound philosophical statement.
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Jul 28, 2025Snipe Hunter is mostly a rollicking twang-rock and roll record full of brand new tunes and hard-won wisdom, big ideas about the big ol’ world, expansive arrangements for his band the Food Stamps, and a persistent, palpable rawness courtesy of the legendary Rick Rubin, who produced the album, and Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn.
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Oct 7, 2025Childers makes plain his depth and prowess as a young alt-country great. Better still: Snipe Hunter firmly establishes Tyler Childers’ place in the genre’s expansive, humorous, heartfelt, at times oddball, and certainly literary pantheon.
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Aug 12, 2025The 13-song set, which includes the streaming hits "Oneida" and "Nose on the Grindstone," combines Childers' alchemical blend of country, bluegrass, and folk with rich gospel harmonies and immersing ambient field recordings.
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UncutAug 18, 2025Snipe Hunter is Childers' familiar reconciliation of the raucous and thoughtful, and possible his most accomplished to date. [Oct 2025, p.24]
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Jul 28, 2025He’s still what everyone says he is: an Appalachian man with a penchant for storytelling. Snipe Hunter is his first record to capture and celebrate the depth behind that.