Loma Vista Records (16/44.1 WAV download; also available on CD, LP, cassette tape). 2023.
Jonathan Wilson, Margo Price, prods.; Jonathan Wilson, Dexter Green, others, engs.
Artists with ambition must grow or has the pleasant, could-be-better sonics common to rock records today. The opener, “Been to the Mountain,” its guitar-riff crunch tastefully mixed behind her voice, is the heaviest, most rock-adjacent tune she has recorded. Where her last album, the Sturgill Simpson–produced “That’s How Rumors Get Started,” was lush and poppy, moves in a 1970s Laurel Canyon–rock direction.
