Album Overview:

The fifth studio album fromDawes, 2016’s cheekily titledWe’re All Gonna Die, finds the rootsy Los Angeles outfit pushing its melodic, literate roots rock in an artsier, more sonically experimental direction. Following up the group’s engaging 2015 effortAll Your Favorite Bands,We’re All Gonna Diefeels like the beginning of a creative transformation where the band begins to shed all genre constraints and influences, emerging as its own fantastically musical creature. It brings to mind the early-2000s metamorphosis ofWilco, the most obvious antecedent toDawes‘ own thinking-man’s folk-rock aesthetic. Still centered on lead singer/songwriterTaylor Goldsmith,Dawestake all the poignant twang that made up their previous work and imbue it with a tactile, delicately experimental vibe on a set of songs that are as i