ALBUM REVIEW: Paisley Field’s ‘Are U Mad At Me’ is an Instant Country Classic

Paisley Fields immerses the listener in a delightful frenzy from the very jump on his instant classic Are U Mad At Me. Fields takes country music’s key ingredients – nostalgia, authenticity, the mundane indignities of life – and throws them in a blender, producing ten songs that set the head spinning, heart aching, and mouth bitterly smirking…and toe along to frenetic hyperpop beats. Strain an ear a bit, and you’ll hear the echoes of Patrick Haggerty, queer cou