Wyatt Flores is one of the most thoughtful, honest, expressive, and gripping songwriters of this new generation of Texas and Red Dirt performers, putting the roiled nature of post-pandemic, young adult life that’s full of emotional pitfalls and sometimes crippling self-doubt into songs that compel listeners of all ages, backed by a sound that is both grounded in the roots, but also untethered by them, and willing to push the music forward to places that feel fresh to today’s audiences. Irrespective of how you feel about it or how you feel about Wyatt Flores in general, this dispassionate, on-paper assessment of the album is the one that most anyone would come to when looking at the credits, and listening to the results.