Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Reunions

By any normal standards, Reunions is outstanding; in the context of Isbell's recent discography it's merely very good, a sustaining of the high standard he's set in that run since Southeastern. Whether on crisply written, richly layered and thrumming singer-songwriter fare like first three songs "What've I Done to Help", "Dreamsicle" and "Only Children", guitar-to-the-forefront rock songs like "Overseas" and "Be Afraid" (which bring to mind both the War on Drugs and Isbell's old band the Drive-By Truckers) or mellower moments like "River" and "Letting You Go", it all resonates; for modern Americana it doesn't get much better than this.