The New OK

Drive-By Truckers’ 13th studio album arrives with little notice, announced just a few days before release—but for fans of Patterson Hood’s long-running Southern rock band, the of-the-moment topicality of these nine songs is anything but surprising. DBTs’ second album of 2020 finds the quintet turning their searing, soulful songwriting towards civil unrest and our fractured collective psyche, throwing in a rip-roaring cover of the Ramones’ “The KKK Took My Baby Away” for good measure. Twenty-five years in, Drive-By Truckers have lost none of their Southern-fried bite, continuing to proudly sound like no one except themselves.

On their second album this year, the hardworking Southern rockers pair The Unraveling outtakes with songs written during lockdown, taking advantage of the record’s looseness to show off their range.

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The US rockers rail against Trump, fascism and police violence in their second album this year

Drive-By Truckers - The New OK review: Let me know son, when you've had enough