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Love & Light

Current price: $11.99
Love & Light
Love & Light

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Love & Light

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Nashville duo
Maddie & Tae
are your confident big sisters and an unstoppable country-pop force on their fourth album, 2025's horse-powered
Love & Light
. Heralded by the saucy, emancipated "Kissing Cowboys," the album builds smartly upon the wry female empowerment of the duo's subversive 2014 hit "Girl in a Country Song" without losing a handle on the believably rootsy, down-home qualities that helped make 2020's
The Way It Feels
and 2022's two-volume
Through the Madness
so compelling. It's a one-two punch the pair land consistently throughout
, an album so chock-full of radio-ready bangers that at least half of the record's songs would be the anchor single for any other artist's album. Of course, it doesn't hurt that
Maddie Font
and
Taylor Tae Kerr
are blessed with big, ringing, whiskey-and-cinnamon voices that veritably plow through the album's twangy country-rock arrangements. The set also benefits from savvy production via longtime collaborator (and
Taylor
's husband)
Josh Kerr
, as well as
Chris LaCorte
Corey Crowder
. They all bring a crisp, high-fidelity studio vibe, yet one that is punctuated by lustrous organic instrumental contributions by noted Nashville bluegrass and country luminaries like
Bryan Sutton
,
Danny Rader
, and
Kris Donegan
, among others. Cuts like the opening "Fall in Love & Find Out," "One Hit Wonders," and the aforementioned "Kissing Cowboys" are the kind of perfect country anthems that get stuck in your head and leave you smiling with their cheeky turns of phrase. They even thread the needle between Christian and secular pop on "Only Jesus," somehow making a song about cutting a bad lover out of your life sound like the Lord's work. They sing, "I may have a cross hanging 'round my neck, but don't be surprised boy, I said what I said."
There's a feeling that
have matured into their own skins on
and have become the strong women they both want to be and want to support in the world. There are massively emotional moments here, especially when the duo play the role of wiser older sisters looking out for their girlfriends, as on the sparkling "Somebody Will," a song that marries the pure harmonies of
the Everly Brothers
with the stadium-sized diva wallop of
Adele
. They further underline their got-your-back energy on "Heart They Didn't Break," paying tribute to friends that really show up, while harmonizing against a backdrop of pickup-truck pedal steel and acoustic guitars. One of the magical skills
have is ably subverting musical categories, as on the ebullient disco-soul number "Drunk Girls in Bathrooms," a song so immediately hooky and likeable it transcends genre in a way few country artists have done, save for
Dolly Parton
Shania Twain
Miranda Lambert
. With
add themselves to that list of crossover icons whose music will win the country faithful, all while rounding up everyone else in the process. ~ Matt Collar

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