Years

*'Years'* solidifies the point: **Sarah Shook & the Disarmers** have moved from getting people’s attention to commanding it. The bands’ new album–with its sharpened songwriting, unique perspective deepened sound and roll-up-your-sleeves attitude–will grab you by the collar and put a defiant finger to your chest. It is resolute blunt and unflinching. Built around the buoyant pedal steel of **Phil Sullivan** and the post-punk rattle and Live at San Quentin hum of **Eric Peterson**’s guitar there are echoes of *Merle Haggard* as much as *Neko Case* and *Ty Segall*. Its home is the ragged-but-real honky tonk, not the bro-country "honky tonk".