Goodbye Country

VINYL. While this third LP lacks the loose-limbed, blackout-drunk ferocity of 2007's Whiskey Flower, the Austin quintet broadens its horizons, from the feel-good pop-organ of opener "Mine Like a Diamond" to 1960s psychedelic ("The Box") and growled gothic country ("Wrong and Right"). The woozy strum of "Pharmacy" bears the self-medicated slur of a true Golden Boys song mid-album, and the last half slowly makes its way to its knees, until the pass-the-bottle, tear-in-your-beer torch song "Shell of Some Guy." With the addition of horns and accordions, Goodbye Country's a bit of a hodgepodge, but trampling on acceptable music standards is seldom a bad direction.