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74

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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from Oklahoma country artist Zach Bryan features 25 tracks. An acoustic 24-track version was released three days later.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
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  1. Jan 12, 2026
    83
    The album’s triumph is that it holds all of this at once — the wanderer and the homesick son, the arena headliner and the guy bombing in Arkansas. Heraclitus was right: you can’t step in the same river twice. But Zach Bryan proves you can keep moving forward while honoring where you’ve been.
  2. Jan 12, 2026
    80
    ‘With Heaven On Top’ is comforting yet absorbing, timeless but timely, a space to escape in while still feeling challenged, and still feeling entertained. Whatever it is, Zach Bryan has cracked it.
  3. Jan 12, 2026
    70
    Listening to 25 songs of one man’s stuff is about 10 too many, but Bryan can keep our attention because he’s good at writing genuinely open-hearted lyrics rooted in the hope that we can read our own story in his.
  4. Feb 11, 2026
    70
    Delivering raw, narrative‑driven songwriting that feels both prescient and relatable, as heard on standout cuts like "Plastic Cigarette," "Say Why," and "Appetite."
  5. Jan 12, 2026
    70
    It’s the sound of Zach Bryan figuring out how to paint on a larger canvas, how to sound like the superstar he has become.
  6. Jan 15, 2026
    50
    With Heaven On Top blurs more than it bangs, quite frankly. For every track as rich as the mandolin-filled “Santa Fe,” there’s a stripped-down crooner like “Say Why” ready to undercut the Southwestern bombast.