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 |
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Week Ending: | Jan 19 | Jan 12 | Jan 5 | Dec 29 | Dec 22 | Dec 15 | Dec 8 | Dec 1 |
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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 |
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2. | Feb 01, 2025: | Music Casserole
Blood Related |
5. | Jan 18, 2025: | Music Casserole
White Lies, White Jesus, and You |
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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
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)
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 | . |