The Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks (ask me how many times I had to remove Dixie from this post due to habit) released Gaslighter, their first album since 2006 today. I hadn’t really cared that much for the first single they released off of it, the title track “Gaslighter”, but I really do like the full album. In fact I think “Gaslighter” is my least favorite song on the album.

It appeals to me musically. Lyrically I’m agnostic. It doesn’t really speak to me at all. It’s mostly from what I’ve read and can tell by listening to it a sort of catharsis for Natalie Maines writing about her very messy divorce from Adrian Pasdar. I don’t care that much about celebrity relationships, so I’m uninterested in whether all the things she sings about actually happened or not. I do really like the sound of most of the songs though, and since I’m rarely paying that much attention to lyrics these days I’m happy to just have some new songs that bring back the sound of The Chicks.

I’m sharing “Sleep at Night” because I think it’s one of my favorites from the album. The album was produced by Jack Antonoff, so it definitely has a little bit more of a pop vibe. There are still a lot of typical country elements here though. This song is perhaps one of the poppiest, but there is still the very recognizable banjo in the mix.