Brett Eldredge - Bring You Back

Label: Atlantic Nashville
Year: 2013
Genre: Country
Recommending Person: Viki Arias

Country has been under attack recently for repeating the same song over and over again. I felt some of the same with Brett Eldredge's debut album. Now he isn't part of the current Frat Country of sitting on beaches and drinking beer, he is aiming directly at a young female market with about 11 of the 12 songs about how he is a big romantic, and he wants nothing more than just his lady. 

I was about to go out on a diatribe how every song seems to have an affectation into the singing, but that happens just as often in punk rock, indie, and every genre on the planet. To me this album lacked any sort of emotional core that was believable. Everything was face value, each emotion was one note, and every song felt contrived. I've never been big on Country to begin with, but nothing about this record made me feel differently about the genre in general. Everything seems like a put on, but unlike the current pop country it lacks any attempt at fun. It seems content with being chipper.  Even the label seems to be pandering, Atlantic Nashville?  The appeal is still lost on me for the most part, but I will keep trying.