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Artist | Angaleena Presley
Title | American Middle Class
Genre | Country Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 46:49
Label | Slate Creek Records Store | 2014
Catalog | SCR1014141 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 223 kbps Size | 79.03 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Ain't No Man 3:44
02. All I Even Wanted 5:28
03. Grocery Store 3:42
04. American Middle Class 3:47
05. Dry County Blues 4:01
06. Pain Pills 2:58
07. Life Of The Party 5:24
08. Knocked Up 3:54
09. Better Off Red 3:38
10. Drunk 2:57
11. Blessing And A Curse 3:37
12. Surrender 3:39
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As the last of the Pistol Annies to release her own album, Angaleena
Presley wasn't a superstar on the level of Miranda Lambert, nor was
she quite the Music City survivor like Ashley Monroe. Instead, she
was a behind-the-scenes songwriter who received a boost once she
became part of the Annies. Once the group's 2011 debut Hell on Heels
turned into a success, it was a matter of time before Presley
received her own record contract, which she did in 2014, when she
released "American Middle Class".
Angaleena Presley operates on a more intimate scale than either
Miranda Lambert or Ashley Monroe. Lambert trades on her bravado,
Monroe on her savviness, but Presley relies on subtlety on "American
Middle Class", her long-awaited 2014 solo debut. Attitude isn't of
paramount importance here, nor is the kind of flashy production that
would send her into the country charts. With its measured
arrangements and deliberate, detailed narratives, what "American
Middle Class" most resembles is Brandy Clark's acclaimed 2013 album
"12 Stories" ('Drunk' sounds like an unofficial prelude to Clark's
'Hungover') but Presley is a distinctive songwriter in her own
right, possessing a knack for conveying the fraying dreams of a
middle America with empathy and sly humor.
Sometimes, the jokes are front and center, as they are on the
shambling "Knocked Up," but the nifty thing about American Middle
Class is how Presley often blurs the line between sobriety and
satire on her sketches of lives lived on the fringe of America.
Perhaps Presley isn't a powerhouse of a singer but her lazy gait
means her barbed sensibility goes down smooth, so it's only after
the record has concluded that the depth and variety of "American
Middle Class" sink in. This is a rich, deceptively relaxed portrait
of working-class life in America in 2014 and it will linger for some
time to come.
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