Album Review

Courtney Marie Andrews looks firmly to the future

With a new album where country music meets psychedelia, Courtney Marie Andrews shows that she has no intention of standing still

Courtney Marie Andrews: veers more towards Angel Olsen and Lucinda Williams than Garth Brooks and Luke Combs

Courtney Marie Andrews, Loose Future (Fat Possum)

For her splendid 2020 record Old Flowers, Courtney Marie Andrews earned a Grammy nomination in the Best Americana Album category. Her follow-up, however, is in a different class altogether. The underlying threads may be modern country music, but Andrews veers more towards Angel Olsen and Lucinda Williams than Garth Brooks and Luke Combs. Add a hint of Jenny Lewis’s pop-tinged, string-driven psychedelia and you’re some way towards ...