They've removed 'Dixie' from their name and are set to release their first album in 14 years, one that might be the best of the Chicks' tumultuous career.
and Lorde — and with Taylor Swift, who recruited the Chicks to sing backup on last year’s “Lover” — and it features songwriting and instrumental contributions by the likes of St. Vincent’s Annie Clark, Ariel Rechtshaid and the duo of Justin Tranter and Julia Michaels, who’ve written smashes for Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.
The sound is sleek but homey, with banjo and fiddle mixing with keyboards and programmed percussion behind the Chicks’ crisp vocal harmonies, which haven’t aged at all in a decade and a half. But although you can hear the women’s delight in using fresh textures and colors, “Gaslighter” doesn’t have the feel of a veteran act desperate for a reboot; what comes through is their collaborators’ excitement about being permitted into the Chicks’ private world.
That represents a neat reversal from the late ’90s, when the trio got going after an earlier phase with a different lead singer; for all their smiley exuberance, the Chicks back then could put across a young-fogey quality — musically if not attitudinally — in their determination to please their roots-music elders, including Maines’ dad, Lloyd, a mainstay of the Texas country scene. Here, they’re the ones whose approval matters.
Indeed, one of the most gratifying aspects of “Gaslighter” — and something else that gives this quietly thrilling record a sly political edge almost in spite of itself — is its emphasis on the concerns of middle age so rarely heard in big-ticket pop records by women. In “Young Man,” Maines sings tenderly about explaining her ex’s misdeeds to her two sons; “Hope It’s Something Good” describes the singer’s attempts to busy herself in a newly empty home.
The line is surely a reference to Trump’s infamous backing of Vladimir Putin during a 2018 press conference. Yet Maines doesn’t sound concerned in the slightest that she might again be in for some blowback. She fought that war; others await.
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