Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown (2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Shelby Lynne – Consequences of the Crown (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:00 minutes | 751 MB | Genre: Folk, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Monument Records

After commemorating the 25th anniversary of her groundbreaking, genre-defying I Am Shelby Lynne album this year, the Grammy award winning artist is releasing her much-anticipated new project Consequences of the Crown. With singles “Over and Over” and “But I Ain’t” out now, the album in its entirety – produced by an all-female powerhouse group including Lynne in collaboration with Karen Fairchild (of Little Big Town,) Ashley Monroe and Gena Johnson – will be available both digitally and on vinyl August 16th.All the young women now worshiping vintage Sheryl Crow should listen to I Am Shelby Lynne, the stunning album (produced by Crow collaborator Bill Bottrell) getting a 25th-anniversary re-release this year—but also to Lynne’s new record, Consequences of the Crown, which feels like a natural descendent. I Am Shelby Lynne is a classic break-up record and Lynne told Variety that Consequences is even “more of a heartbreaker, because I’ve been through it again. I’m never fucking falling in love again.” Thank her for enduring the pain, because Lynne’s 17th album is a work of art, the kind that makes you stop and really think about it. From the moment “Consequences” rolls in, with Lynne speaking in hushed tones about a crushing betrayal, it’s a shock to the system. Then she starts singing—her soulful tone and delivery evoking traces of Chaka Khan—on the striking, stark “Truth We Know,” and you are witnessing something radical: evidence that middle-aged women are not invisible if you open your eyes and ears.

“Regular Man” is plush noir, in the vein of “Killing Me Softly with His Song” (both the Roberta Flack and Fugees versions), with plainspoken piano and fuzzy percussion contrasted against wistful strings. Lynne sounds effortless as she weaves together the story of drunks—a past confidant, herself and her father, a violent alcoholic who killed Lynne’s mother and himself in a fit of rage. Lynne, who has said she doesn’t drink anymore, was 17 at the time and became a safe harbor for her 14-year-old sister Allison Moorer, now a celebrated singer-songwriter herself. The two unite on “Butterfly”—Sunday morning dreamy with classic Motown strings—and Lynne has said she recently left the West Coast for Nashville in order to be closer to her sister. That move also put her in the orbit of Karen Fairchild, the Little Big Town singer and songwriter who co-wrote and co-produced Consequences of the Crown (and even now helps manage Lynne’s career). Fairchild and talented collaborator Ashley Monroe back up Lynne on catchy, easy-flowing “But I Ain’t,” which borrows from ’90s R&B and, yes, I Am Shelby Lynne.

Both “Keep the Light On” and “Good Morning Mountain” nod to the moody R&B blues of Dusty in Memphis (Lynne recorded an album of Dusty Springfield covers in 2008). Brightened by New Orleans horns, “Over and Over” is gritty and majestic with an epic chorus: “It burns and it rages/ It tears the pages/ Of the story we wrote/ Over and over and over and over.” The song is, simply, hot shit. You can draw comparisons to Sheryl Crow’s self-titled album on songs like the raw “Shattered,” while “Gone to Bed” interpolates Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Alfie.” And “Clouds”—dressed with cool ’90s hip-hop beats and tinkly keys—finds Lynne singing “I got sick on a boat/ Cigarettes and regret … Burning up and burning down/ Aint’ sorry then, ain’t sorry now. The lyrics might be as honest as that, but they sure do work as a metaphor for Lynne’s trailblazing career. – Shelly Ridenour

Tracklist:

1-1. Shelby Lynne – Truth We Know (02:08)
1-2. Shelby Lynne – Consequences (03:15)
1-3. Shelby Lynne – Butterfly (03:20)
1-4. Shelby Lynne – But I Ain’t (03:06)
1-5. Shelby Lynne – Shattered (03:04)
1-6. Shelby Lynne – Gone To Bed (02:49)
1-7. Shelby Lynne – Clouds (04:01)
1-8. Shelby Lynne – Regular Man (03:45)
1-9. Shelby Lynne – Over and Over (03:44)
1-10. Shelby Lynne – Good Morning Mountain (04:12)
1-11. Shelby Lynne – Dear God (03:29)
1-12. Shelby Lynne – Keep The Light On (03:01)

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