Carly Pearce – hummingbird (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Carly Pearce – hummingbird (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:55 minutes | 965 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Big Machine Records, LLC

Carly Pearce’s highly anticipated fourth studio album, hummingbird, marks Pearce’s debut as a co-producer and fully represents her new musical chapter – one of forward motion. Following the success of her last studio album, 29: Written In Stone, Pearce leans in to her authentic country sound encompassed by the symbolism of the hummingbird which represents the album’s themes of growth, humility, understanding, playfulness, and optimism.Carly Pearce’s first two albums showed so much potential but, largely, the songs didn’t quite match her talent. That changed in 2021 with 29: Written in Stone, which paired her with exactly the right producers: Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne, who have done such great work with Sam Hunt, Midland, Old Dominion and, most notably, Kacey Musgraves on her first few albums. The two sidelined the pop feel of Pearce’s early efforts and let her delve deep into ’90s country influences. Hummingbird repeats the formula, but to even greater effect. Pearce, who used to come across as fragile, sounds like she’s having the time of her life on “country music made me do it,” which uses fiddle, mandolin and acoustic guitar to warm things up. You can hear Faith Hill’s inspiration on country torch songs “pretty please” and “my place.” And damned if “heels over head” doesn’t evoke Wide Open Spaces-era Chicks, banjo and all. Pearce sounds giddy as she delivers catty innuendo with a healthy dose of side eye: “You love the way that she blows your … mind/ Now I see why you’d leave me / ‘Cause she makes easy look so easy.” On the ballad “we don’t fight anymore,” Osborne and McAnally keep duet partner Chris Stapleton’s powerhouse gale turned down in the mix—you hear his gravel twang and pull, you know he’s there, but he doesn’t overshadow Pearce, whose own lovely tone shines. (And Stapleton isn’t wasted here, getting a chance to unleash on the bridge.) Pearce also teamed up with star co-writers, including Lady A’s Charles Kelley (for the spitfire revenge track “truck on fire”), Natalie Hemby (vibrant “still blue,” which swaggers like an old Jeannie C. Riley track), and Nicolle Galyon, who co-wrote the best songs on Miranda Lambert’s Platinum. Here, Galyon lends a hand on “oklahoma” and “rock paper scissors,” which applies a fiery, Lambert-esque touch as Pearce draws from her own short-lived marriage: “He bought a rock/ We signed the paper/ And now I’m taking a pair of scissors/ To the pictures and the brand-new pair of bed sheets from The Knot.” And Pearce, who has honored classic country before with her song “Dear Miss Loretta,” nods to it once more with the ballad things I don’t chase” and two-step-ready “fault line”—about which Pearce has said, “I can’t help but hear Tammy and George sing it in my head.” – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-01. Carly Pearce – country music made me do it (03:29)
1-02. Carly Pearce – truck on fire (03:08)
1-03. Carly Pearce – still blue (03:24)
1-04. Carly Pearce – heels over head (03:14)
1-05. Carly Pearce – we don’t fight anymore (03:38)
1-06. Carly Pearce – rock paper scissors (02:41)
1-07. Carly Pearce – oklahoma (03:39)
1-08. Carly Pearce – my place (03:38)
1-09. Carly Pearce – things I don’t chase (03:14)
1-10. Carly Pearce – woman to woman (02:50)
1-11. Carly Pearce – fault line (03:19)
1-12. Carly Pearce – pretty please (04:07)
1-13. Carly Pearce – trust issues (03:01)
1-14. Carly Pearce – hummingbird (04:27)

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