Consumer Guide Album

Zach Bryan: With Heaven on Top [Belting Bronco, 2026]
This irrepressibly fluent 29-year-old Navy vet has generated a songbook so vast it claims such adv-adj combos as compliments before anyone starts throwing "garrulous" or "long-winded" at him. Drawn to New York City like few Oklahomans before him, he opens this album with a spoken-word track called "Down, Down Stream" that begins in a none too commodious four-apartment Manhattan house he bought himself. Then it goes on for 25 tracks that'll keep you entertained. A−