All the Right Weaknesses

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All the Right Weaknesses
Brown Horse - All the Right Weaknesses.jpg
Studio album by
Brown Horse
Released4 April 2025 (2025-04-04)
Genre Country rock [1]
Length43:16
Label Loose
Producer Owen Turner
Brown Horse chronology
Reservoir
(2024)
All the Right Weaknesses
(2025)
Singles from All the Right Weaknesses
  1. "Corduroy Couch"
    Released: 21 January 2025

All the Right Weaknesses is the second studio album by English country rock group Brown Horse, released on 4 April 2025 via Loose Records & Music, [2] in LP, CD and digital formats. [1]

Contents

Background

The album was recorded in a Norfolk studio. [2] "Corduroy Couch" was released as a single on 21 January 2025. The band's guitarist Nyle Holihan noted the band's presence in Europe for two months prior to the recording session of the album, stating, "We were pretty much constantly together, spending hours in the van listening to the same music, exploring unfamiliar places and playing shows almost every night." [3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
PopMatters 9/10 [2]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]

Jack Walters of PopMatters assigned the album a rating of nine, remarking "Despite different songwriters, All the Right Weaknesses, unlike its cover art, does not feel like a patchwork of songs. Instead, it's cohesive with tracks that, through magic-realism imagery, ask the most existential question: what does it mean to be human?" [2]

In a four-star review for Mojo , Andy Fyfe opined, "their quietly grungy country rock has opened up, Allthe Right Weaknesses riding a deep and easy inner groove where the debut sometimes hesitated to cut loose, landing on a loose-limbed Waterboys-meets-Crazy Horse energy." [1] The album received a 4.5-star rating from Uncut reviewer Michael Bonner, who observed, "Thematically too, these songs all feel connected. The disparity between fiction and reality is a common thread. Other songs seem caught in a form of psychic interspace, a place of dark visions and fever dreams, hovering between something unspoken yet ominous." [4]

Track listing

All the Right Weaknesses track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Verna Bloom"3:52
2."Wisteria Vine"4:25
3."Corduroy Couch"4:24
4."Dog Rose"5:25
5."All the Right Weaknesses"3:15
6."Holy Smokes"2:26
7."Radio Free Bolinas"4:35
8."Tombland"2:42
9."Curse"3:57
10."Wipers"4:24
11."Far Off Places"3:51
Total length:43:16

Personnel

Credits adapted from Bandcamp.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Fyfe, Andy (May 2025). "All the Right Weaknesses". Mojo . No. 378. Bauer Media Group. p. 87. ISSN   1351-0193 . Retrieved 15 October 2025 via Archive.org.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Walters, Jack (28 April 2025). "Brown Horse's All the Right Weaknesses Hits All the Right Notes". PopMatters . Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  3. Kelly, Tyler (21 January 2025). "Brown Horse announce their second studio album, All the Right Weaknesses". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 15 October 2025.
  4. 1 2 Bonner, Michael (3 April 2025). "Brown Horse – All the Right Weaknesses". Uncut . Archived from the original on 27 April 2025. Retrieved 15 October 2025.