DYLAN SCOTT

                                                            "New Truck" 

                                                            Curb Records

Dylan Scott has become one of country music’s fastest rising stars. He’s recently picked up a CMT Music Award for Breakthrough Video of The Year, and his resume already includes two Number One songs with “My Girl,” and his most recent single, “Nobody.”

Scott’s rich vocal has always perfectly lent itself to deeper love songs that just beg to be compared to the early 2010’s era of country music when songs like the ones that he’s been releasing filled the airwaves.

However, on his latest single “New Truck,” Dylan Scott gives us a love song of a different type; a heart broken song about moving on from a break-up and the memories of what used to be by doing it the only way that he knows how - by getting rid of the truck that reminds him of her.

He instantly hits you with a clap-a-long rhythm that pulls you into the song, while singing of all the things that aren’t wrong with his truck throughout the opening verse:

“The engine runs just fine.”

“Ain’t got a scratch, ain’t got a dent.”

“The radio works.”

However, this list of reasons quickly shifts focus to the one thing that’s caused the major conflict for him as we roll towards the chorus – his girl broke up with him! The lyrical dynamic changes from here and goes into all the reasons for his needing/wanting a new truck:

“I need one she ain’t climbed up in.”

“Need some glass that we ain’t fogged up.”

And of course, there’s also all those little reminders of her that include finding her Chapstick and the hair tie that slid off her wrist.

Scott takes this ultra-relatable lyric and wraps it around your broken heart with a catchy, up-tempo vibe that by the final note has you actually feeling pretty good about losing your better half.

It’s true that Dylan Scott hasn’t really given us a single of this nature yet, but that’s exactly why this is the next logical release from him. This is something new, something different, but yet it’s something that still finds all the right ways to pull every one of his familiar signatures into a song that grips you and makes you want to hear it over and over again.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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