The Baptist GeneralsBest The Baptist Generals Albums Ranked

No Silver/No Gold

pitchfork

8.5

“The barn's empty and sinking. You see the sky through pauses in the roof; otherwise the wind's muffled. There's bird shit everywhere, and you begin gathering it with your feet into a single pile. You notice that when shit mixes with dust it looks like flour on wet dough. Next you recline across two rusted lawn chairs, unwinding. You sip lemon water and listen to the sky for airplanes taking off an”

Jackleg Devotional to the Heart

pitchfork

6.3

“Jackleg Devotional is the Denton, Texas-based outfit's first album in a full decade, which suggests a get-to-it-when-I-get-to-it attitude toward the creative process. It sounds as though it was built out of assorted junkyard scraps, a distinctive and unusual approach matched by Chris Flemmons' antiquated language and poetic phrasing.”