May Your Kindness Remain
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| May Your Kindness Remain | ||||
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| Released | March 23, 2018 | |||
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| Length | 42:59 | |||
| Label | Fat Possum | |||
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May Your Kindness Remain is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews. It was released on March 23, 2018, via Fat Possum Records.
Accolades
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.5/10[1] |
| Metacritic | 79/100[2] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Financial Times | [4] |
| The Guardian | [5] |
| The Independent | [6] |
| The Irish Times | [7] |
| Mojo | [8] |
| Paste | 8.1/10[9] |
| Q | [10] |
| The Times | [11] |
| Uncut | 5/10[12] |
May Your Kindness Remain was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 79, based on nine reviews.[2] The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? has the critical consensus of the album at a 7.5 out of 10, based on fourteen reviews.[1] The aggregator Album of the Year assessed the critical consensus as 78 out of 100, based on ten reviews.[13]
| Publication | Accolade | Rank | Ref. |
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| The Guardian | Best 25 Albums of 2018 | ||
| Paste | Best 50 Albums of 2018 | 21 |
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| Rolling Stone | 25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2018 | ||
| Rough Trade | Top 100 Albums of 2018 | 91 |
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| Uncut | 75 Best Albums of 2018 | 25 |
Track listing
All tracks are written by Courtney Marie Andrews, except "Kindness of Strangers" (written with Jason Blynn and Peter Harper).[19]
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "May Your Kindness Remain" | 3:54 |
| 2. | "Lift the Lonely from My Heart" | 4:57 |
| 3. | "Two Cold Nights in Buffalo" | 3:28 |
| 4. | "Rough Around the Edges" | 4:11 |
| 5. | "Border" | 3:55 |
| 6. | "Took You Up" | 4:46 |
| 7. | "This House" | 4:03 |
| 8. | "Kindness of Strangers" | 3:30 |
| 9. | "I've Hurt Worse" | 4:14 |
| 10. | "Long Road Back to You" | 6:01 |
| Total length: | 42:59 | |
Personnel
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[19]
- Courtney Marie Andrews – vocals, production (all tracks); electric guitar (track 1), acoustic guitar (2, 3, 5, 9, 10), harmony vocals (2, 3, 9), background vocals (8)
- Mark Howard – production, engineering
- Jason Kingsland – mixing
- Floyd Reitsma – additional engineering
- Ed Brooks – mastering
- Dillon Warnek – electric guitar (all tracks), space uke (9)
- William Mapp – drums, percussion
- Alex Sabel – bass
- Daniel Walker – organ (1–8, 10), Wurlitzer (2), accordion (9)
- Charles Wicklander – Wurlitzer (1, 3, 5, 10), piano (4, 6–10)
- C. C. White – background vocals (1, 3, 8, 10)
- Annie Jantzer – background vocals (8)
- Kara Hesse – background vocals (8)
- Laura E. Partain – photography
- Vincent Bancheri – design
