A country-pop newcomer's debut is your reinvention album of 2026

is Ponthier's opus to the wonders of self-discovery, a pristine debut about how exhilarating and even terrifying it can be to keep changing all your plans.'/>

August Ponthier's Everywhere Isn't Texas is as much a fully realized introduction as a complete revival. Its an existential debut that asks: How, exactly, does the artist fit in here?

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