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 The second chapter of Eric Church's seventh album was released last Friday. Soul is also made of nine songs, but the energy totally changes from one part to another. This is funnier to listen to and The Chief seems to be enjoying it too while singing and playing these songs. This album is all about energy , sound and performance. Eric Church carries a vivid, soulful and wild show, exhibiting a wide vocal range (falsetto and deeper voice) throughout the whole album . This time the lyrics aren't personal or even deep . They are funny, getting in the 'bad guy' character or the 'break it kind of guy' . The only exceptions may be Lynird Skynird Jones( that is about the tragic life of  a biracial man born after an affaire in a concert of the band Lynird Skynird ) and Hell of a View , the most chart successful song from the project (top 5 on the billboard hot country songs chart). This the best attempt for a love song. It's a love letter to his lover and to what

 Exploring 'alternative guitar spectrum', the Birmingham singer Oliver Beardmore will definitely bring you 2000s-bands nostalgia with the second single from his upcoming EP.  Warm vocals get you in the track. However, these turn into some coldness while delivering the message of the song, maybe as a result of vulnerability. The certainty of  saying  'It's you that I  always knew'  goes against the oneiric atmosphere that the track creates: It's similar to when you wake up in the middle of the night and everything seems a little blurry. The unexpected and proper guitar solo on minute 2:33 is a great element of surprise on the record and emphasizes the feeling of the song . The track gets wilder and more rock at this point, but it fits in the well-produced ensemble of guitar walls and textures , melted with the percussion.  In the first listen, the image of a cold and rainy night comes to mind and the rhythmic drums ,alongside the guitars ,suggest the scene of a m

 Eric Church finally drops the first part of his triple album 'Heart & Soul' . Heart consists of nine songs and some of them were singles previewed before the realease of the album:  Never Break Heart, Crazyland, Heart On Fire and  Stick that In Your Country Song  , the first single of the whole project, dropped last summer.  Stick That In Your Country Song is one of the most special moments in the album. It was written in 2015 by Jeffrey Steele and David Naish and finally given to Church to sing it himself. It has unavoidable social lyrics and social content, and it addresses young people problems, their options for life and the ease to get in contact with guns and violence. The song is almost combative and there's no better country act than Eric Church to sing it and , maybe, ask for change. There are brilliant songwriting moments, like the lines  ' Jails are full, the factories empty / Momma's crying, young boys dying / Under that red, white, and blue still

 The Lathums have released today their new single, Oh My Love , which sets the band closer to their new and upcoming album.  Despite the joy and the tranquility that the track reflects, there is a deeper meaning  or message in the song. Alex Moore, vocalist and writer of the song, explained in the band account's recent tweets the inspiration and some details about the process of writing the song: He confessed that he was able to complete the lyrics after experiencing the love of the fans and his ability to ' make other people feel emotions'  ,  and that the track came ' from pain and uncertainty'. Oh My Love seems to be a very personal track for Alex, who has also says that it is 'a little bit of me'. The official video came out just a few hours ago. Watch it below:

 Following their single Woman, Beorma released yesterday Drown, the sixth track from their EP Virtual Emotionality and which   stays on the darkness that the duo explored in the project.  Tom's vocals gather fragility and vulnerability, mixed with sadness. There's also some anxiety in them, like if he was searching hard for an exit to his problems and that ends up in the contradictory series of thoughts that make the chorus ( 'Hold me up / Bring me down/ Help me drown') . That angst is the same that drives Tom to try to find the solution in drugs, and it's also caused by what other people say ( 'It's easy looking in from the outside'// 'I worry about what people say'), the social fear, common in the youth,nowadays. The song creates an atmosphere itself and the autotune digs deeper on the feeling of sinking, drawing it almost phisically. Beorma keeps on illustrating the problems of the youth, focusing now on mental health.