Blame It on Gravity [LP]

Comfortable and confident all the way through, and a highly welcomed return.

Comfortable and confident all the way through, and a highly welcomed return.

Blame It On Gravity is a welcome return to form.

Blame It On Gravity is a welcome return to form.

"Strum it on a Telecaster/Sing it like a train-disaster song," sings Miller. It's a perfect mission statement from four Texans raised on the Beatles and Johnny Cash in equal measures, whose shiny melodies, and fatalistic character studies, do their forefathers proud.

The songs move between love and regret and between restlessness and loneliness.

The songs move between love and regret and between restlessness and loneliness.

It’s a nice reminder of what was so wonderful about alt-country in the first place.

Their seventh studio album bucks and chugs, balancing the quartet's original alt-country impetus with Rhett Miller's love of power pop. [June 2008, p.116]

"Strum it on a Telecaster/Sing it like a train-disaster song," sings Miller. It's a perfect mission statement from four Texans raised on the Beatles and Johnny Cash in equal measures, whose shiny melodies, and fatalistic character studies, do their forefathers proud.