The Chicks Gaslighter 180g LP

Consequence of Sound's Top 50 Albums Of 2020 - Rated 38/50!

Gaslighter is the brilliant new album from The Chicks, and is the fifth studio album to be released by the band. It is The Chicks' first new album since 2006's Taking The Long Way, which won five Grammy Awards including "Album of the Year", "Record of the Year" and "Song of the Year". Gaslighter is produced by Jack Antonoff with The Chicks.

Superstars, renegades, innovators, heroes, villains, and moms, The Chicks have grown from a band into a cultural phenomenon. Since the release of their debut album, Wide Open Spaces in 1998, The Chicks' music has stirred emotions in fans across the world, making them one of the biggest and most influential bands of our time.

The Chicks' 14-year hiatus was largely due to parenting, and in many ways, Gaslighter is a parenting album. That is to say, it's music that wants to reassure us and untangle our conflicts for us, but understands also the evil and reckless corners of the world. It knows that there are battles we will have to inherit or learn to wage completely on our own, and it tries also to arm us for these. There are some enemies in the world who will never give us peace on their own, not even if we prompt or entreat them, not even if they once loved or claimed to love us. This could be true of an ex-husband, or it could be true of a government. The album doesn't pretend to resolve these conflicts, because they are ongoing in our lives. When a wound is still there, it's still there. But it does give voice to them, which feels like the whole point.