Pruitt, Katie / Mantras
Album: Mantras   Collection:Country
Artist:Pruitt, Katie   Added:Sep 2024
Label:Rounder Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2024-10-19 Pull Date: 2025-01-18 Charts: Country/Bluegrass
Week Ending: Jan 19 Jan 12 Jan 5 Dec 29 Dec 22 Dec 15 Dec 8 Dec 1
Airplays: 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 21, 2056: Adelaide's Demo
The Waitress
4. Jan 28, 2025: Traditions - Album releases in 2024
All My Friends
2. Feb 01, 2025: Music Casserole
Blood Related
5. Jan 18, 2025: Music Casserole
White Lies, White Jesus, and You
3. Jan 30, 2025: Canadian Cowboy
All My Friends
6. Jan 04, 2025: Hanging in the Boneyard
Leading Actress

Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2024-09-30
COUNTRY POP: FEMALE SINGER-SONGWRITER

A strong follow-up to Katie Pruitt’s debut of 2020 continues in the same vein. Like Expectations, Mantras is autobiographical. While the sound is highly produced and polished, themes include leaving a conservative upbringing, living an out life as a musician, and going through some very tough times. Pruitt describes this record as “a full circle journey from self-sabotage to self-compassion.” All songs by Pruitt; lyrics in the booklet.

FCC clean

1 ** mid-tempo country rocker. Leaving behind old beliefs & discovering new ones (3:17)
2 * slow & soft, then faster & electric. She accepts that religion can bring people peace, but rejects Christianity that’s used as a weapon. She’s left these lies & the liars behind (4:25)
3 mid-slow elec folk. dark place: lonely, depressed, wishing she were someone else (3:52)
4 ** slow. pretty but ambivalent love song. she & gf are apart with odd feelings (4:23)
5 (mild FCC "shitty boyfriends") * slow. pretty ballad. remembering high school when she was a bit awkward and jealous of boys because they could have pretty girlfriends (4:21)
6 ** mid-slow. As she grows she better understands her parents. Lovely melody. (3:41)
7 ** slow. pretty & simple song compares childhood naivety to grownup heartaches (4:18)
8 slow, folky. girlfriend’s life is tied to Katie’s dreams; this might not last. bittersweet (3:18)
9 mid-tempo country rock. dealing with very negative feelings about her life (3:27)
10 mid-slow. going thru ennui & depression on her own. schmaltzy orchestration (4:48)
11 * slow ballad. love is going thru doldrums but she’s trying hard to keep it going. acoustic guitar & strings (4:10)

Track Listing
1. All My Friends   7. Naive Again
2. White Lies, White Jesus, and You   8. The Waitress
3. Self Sabotage   9. Worst Case Scenario
4. Leading Actress   10. Phases of the Moon
5. Jealous of the Boys   11. Standstill
6. Blood Related   .