Cross Country - Cross Country - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

What is your wish? What do you expect? Cross Record's self-titled third album begins with Emily Cross's disembodied voice intoning from an otherworldly vacuum. In the three years since her last album, Cross has divorced, quit drinking, become a death doula, started the observational podcast What I'm Looking At, and toured and recorded with Sub Pop's Loma, the trio she formed with Dan Duszynski on drums and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater) on guitar / vocals. On Cross Record, she guides the listener like a sonic Virgil, delivering a textured soundscape of meditative curiosity, akin to Low's Double Negative, Broadcast's The Noise Made By People and Radiohead's Kid A.The record's themes of departure and separation were inspired by changes Cross made in her career. After years of work as a nanny and in customer service, she recently embarked on studies to become a death doula. Similar to the services provided by birth doulas, a death doula helps clients navigate decisions and hardships at the end of life. In her new role, she created a three hour ceremony called a Living Funeral, which guides participants through the rituals of their own deaths. Her work in helping others face their greatest fears inhabits the same space as her art, which has always explored the metaphysical in the everyday. The eerie experience of listening to this record and the unsettling sense of songs slipping from coherent grasp share these same sensibilities. The oddness of these songs is nonetheless honest and truthful, and to understand them requires acknowledging notions of alienation in ourselves. Album Tracks 1. What Is Your Wish? 2. Licorice 3. Face Smashed, Drooling 4. Pysol My Castle 5. I You 6. The Fly 7. Hollow Garden 8. Y/O Dragon 9. An Angel, a Dove 10. Sing the Song 11. I Am Painting

Breland will his highly-anticipated debut album Cross Country on September 9th. Named for the boundary-pushing, genre-bending style that defines all his output, Cross Country firmly establishes Breland as a vital new force shaping the future of country music. Expanding on the songwriting chops and star-making appeal first revealed on his breakthrough certified Platinum hit single InchMy TruckInch - as well as it's remix with Sam Hunt - Cross Country takes it's title from an autobiographical, acoustic-guitar-fueled track showcasing Breland's intricately detailed storytelling and warm yet commanding voice. Along with the title track InchCross Country (feat. Mickey Guyton),Inch Breland's debut album also offers up previously released singles like InchThrow It Back (feat. Keith Urban)Inch and InchPraise The Lord (feat. Thomas Rhett).Inch Album Tracks 1. Here for It (Feat. Ingrid Andress) 2. County Line 3. Praise the Lord (Feat. Thomas Rhett) 4. Natural 5. Told You I Could Drink (Feat. Lady a) 6. For What It's Worth 7. Happy Song 8. Growing Pains 9. Throw It Back (Feat. Keith Urban) 10. Thick 11. Cross Country (Feat. Mickey Guyton) 12. Good for You 13. Don't Look at Me 14. Alone at the Ranch

Japanese reissue. Universal. 2021. Album Tracks 1. In a Big Country 4 42 2. Inwards 4 35 3. Chance 4 27 4. 1000 Stars 3 53 5. The Storm 6 21 6. Harvest Home 4 20 7. Lost Patrol 4 57 8. Close Action 4 16 9. Fields of Fire 3 32 10. Porrohman 7 53