Urban takes the "Straight Line"

flow state

Keith Urban's "flow state" is the perfect album to start the summer. The 11-track album contains mainly yacht rock covers that are perfect to listen to while on the beach or out at sea, with covers like "How Much I Feel," by Ambrosia, and "Just The Two Of Us," by Bill Withers and Grover Washington, Jr., entering the mix. "flow state" is different, incorporating a new wave of instrumentals that add a uniqueness to each track alongside Urban's vocals. ...

High

Following hits "Straight Line," "Wildside" and "Go Home W U" featuring Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban drops thematically driven and pleasantly electrifying album "High," a nearly four-year drop since 2020's "The Speed of Now Part 1." Urban took great interest in feelings and experiences associated with the word "high," reflecting on his own passions approaching the sensation or "place of utopia" as Urban dubs it . ...

THE SPEED OF NOW Part 1

It's getting tougher and tougher all the time to justify categorizing Keith Urban's music as country. "The Speed of Now, Pt. 1" doesn't help. (What, is there a pt. 2 of this largely lame music on the way? Say it ain't so!) It's a relatively good pop album, for a Nashville pop effort, but there's just too much real country (Jon Pardi, Luke Combs) getting played on mainstream radio these days. The world just doesn't really need new Urban pop music. ...