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Apr 13, 2018Pearson's point has been made: he's upended the high expectations his 2011 album set, no longer seeming like a soul-baring troubadour. Whether that was worth a seven year wait, only fans can decide.
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Apr 13, 2018Too often the feeling remains that the joke isn't funny enough to sustain a whole record, especially one that follows a masterpiece.
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Apr 12, 2018Josh T Pearson’s latest experiments have made for his most uneven record yet, but among the less characterful songs, there’s still some of that old miserable magic to relish within the directness of it all. The Straight Hits! may not be his finest, but maybe the purge was a necessary one.
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Apr 11, 2018This music’s unhinged, pinballing molecules have a wild energy, here and there.
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Q MagazineApr 10, 2018The Straight Hits! feels so unlike 2011's exquisitely miserable Last Of The Country Gentlemen. Pearson wrote the LP according to five songwriting "pillars" and the constraints, paradoxically, have freed him up. [Jun 2018, p.114]
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Apr 10, 2018The best moments recall Dan Sartain, a man whose moustachioed fashion victim look Pearson seems to have lifted, but whose freewheeling punk rockacountrybilly essence he hasn’t quite distilled.
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MojoApr 10, 2018The Straight Hits! is front-loaded with positivist rockers, but these are ramshackle. ... The second half mercifully reverts to Pearson's true calling as a funereal balladeer; even then, the transition's too jarring to cohere to the conceptual/titular framework. [May 2018, p.90]
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Apr 14, 2018Straight listening from start 2 finish from Texas gentlemen Josh T Pearson. Straight 10