Kane Brown

Whether rocking out electric (“Hometown,” “Pull it Off”) or settling down with an acoustic guitar (“Better Place”), Kane Brown does it with flavor and authenticity. His warm voice wraps around a track like a work glove and grips it tight. Filled with anthems and tear-jerkers, *Kane Brown* is a knockout of a debut album, and a likely forecast of even better things to come.

Brown spends as much time working the party-hearty territory of Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line as he does with the R&B-inflected romance of Sam Hunt -- to break things up a bit, he dabbles in the hometown nostalgia of Eric Church ("Cold Spot") -- which gives Kane Brown some range.