One former half of the country powerhouse that was Florida Georgia Line is back with another solo record, a year after his last. I remember thinking his last one was pretty good, though had nothing on his past band. But, we got sent this through early and knew it was one I just had to check out in full. Let’s dive in!

Opener ‘Wish You Would’ surprisingly has an 80s energy and synth sound infused with the expected stadium/bro country. It’s super produced, with electronic drums and an almost Bryan Adams guitar tone. However, Tyler’s voice keeps it distinctly country and immediately grounds it in that FGL sound. And of course it’s a massive, stadium-filling chorus, as expected from Tyler at this point. Correct me if I’m wrong, but do the guitars not go into the Police’s ‘Every Breath You Take’ at times during the chorus? Whether the answer is yes or no, either way it works! The lyrics are a tad cringy, but again that was expected. It’s a good song, and a good way to open the album!

‘Park’ continues the same pop/soft-rock meets country vibe as the opener. And once again, while the verse is fun, it all feels like it builds up to the massive chorus. The harmonies and backing vocals throughout are fun, adding even more catchiness to it all. And the instrumentation, while simple, compliments it all perfectly. We do, however, get a nice little guitar solo in the middle of the song, which was awesome. I really enjoyed the song and it easily makes it onto our playlist!

There is a little more focus on the guitars in ‘A Lot with a Little’, giving it a bit more of a rock feel. It still drops back during the verse, but that’s such a country-radio formula now that songs kinda have to. And the chorus is, you guessed it, great and huge and open. The same could be said for ‘Night Like That’ and ‘American Mellcamp’. Both are great songs, the latter even easily making it onto our playlist too. However, they are very similar to each other, that rock-tinged radio-country.

Meanwhile, songs like ‘Take Me Back’, ‘Back Then Right Now’ and ‘Vegas’ slow things down in the middle, being more mid-tempo acoustic ballads. All three again are good songs and fit together pretty perfectly in sequence, a good place to chill the album out a bit. Then you have ‘Turn’, which is even more relaxed and acoustic and ballady, but is another massive highlight track of the album. It’s beautiful, catchy and has some surprisingly decent lyrics to it. It’s another great, playlisted song!

It was around ‘BNA’ where I started to feel the length of the album. It isn’t even that long (for a country album) at 13 tracks. The final four songs aren’t even bad either, even if the aforementioned one is very pop. I simply don’t think there’s a massive amount of variety afforded in this style, and after five FGL albums and a solo record afterwards, there isn’t much left for Tyler to do in the genre. I’m sure those into the more pop-leaning side of country would tolerate it a little more than I am, but I did get bored by the last couple of songs.

Overall: This was okay. I remember really enjoying the last Florida Georgia Line album when it was released, reviewing it at my old place and giving it somewhere around an 8. However, that was more upbeat, more country and… well… better. It was clear that Brian was the more country-oriented member of the duo, and his solo stuff is undisputedly better, but even Tyler’s last album had more country to it and was certainly better. This was fine, a distinctly average ‘country’ album that I feel like I’ve already forgotten about save for a couple of tracks.

The Score: 5/10