Although Swift looked to the 80s for inspiration for 1989, she has proved (twice now) that this album is timeless, and that this trailblazer, who pioneered this phenomenal comeback almost a decade later, will never go out of style.
Empathy, a primary appeal of Tyler Childers’ songwriting, tends to be one of the first casualties of our modern, hyper-charged discourse. Through his music - both in the weightier meditations of his past records and newfound levity of Rustin' in the Rain - Childers continues to demonstrate that it’s possible to see the world through someone else’s eyes.