Zach Bryan is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Zach Bryan. It was released on August 25, 2023, through Belting Bronco and Warner. Entirely self-produced (except for the song "Oklahoman Son" produced by Eddie Spear), it features guest appearances by the War and Treaty, Sierra Ferrell, Kacey Musgraves, and the Lumineers. At the 66th Annual Grammy Awards the project received three nominations, including for Best Country Album, winning his first Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for the lead collaboration "I Remember Everything" with Musgraves.
Commercially the album debuted atop the US Billboard 200 with the biggest streaming week for a rock album, while its only single "I Remember Everything" became the first song to debut at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, Hot Country Songs, and Hot Rock & Alternative Songs charts simultaneously.
In support of the album, Bryan embarked on the Quittin Time Tour '24 throughout 2024. It began on March 6 at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, and ended on December 19 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. This tour was the first one he went on after releasing the album six months prior. The Quittin Time tour had a gross profit of almost $200 million. He sold out 81 venues in total netting over 1.8 million tickets sold. The tours success was largely due to the success of the Zach Bryan Album, especially hit song "I Remember Everything". Staying strictly within the U.S. for this tour but seeing success with the album in other countries prompted him to perform in the U.K. in 2025.
Zach Bryan is a modern country album. Normally I don't like modern country as the production is much too smooth and it all sound commercial and uninteresting. This album is an exception. From the start a feeling of integrity is all around. The songs are solid and the performance is to the point. "I Remember Everything", "Hey Driver", "Overtime", "Spotless" and "East Side of Sorrow" are good songs. The guest contributions are spot on. This album also has its flaws as the lyrics are often not that great and there should be a law against such poor album cover design.
Really very good. Maybe a third in I was feeling like I was going to get sick of the vocal style, but he opens this up and takes things in interesting directions. A lot going on lyrically both in content and form. Sounds like he might be kind of a dick but oh well, I don't have to hang out with him.
I enjoy listening to Zach Bryan, but not so much a whole album. His albums are certainly cohesive and have a solid through line, but my god, get some range. Do something different. All the songs are good, but he’ll never be great unless he can hit a different emotion than melancholy. Still great stuff. One of the only poets I don’t mind. 4/5
I am mixed on this. I love some of the collabs on this but overall it is less than the sum of its parts and the song writing just isn't that great.
Also the album cover is just... bad.
Always enjoy more American country music here but this doesn't do it for me.
My personal rating: 3/5
My rating relative to the list: 3/5
Should this have been included on the original list? No.
Zach Bryan has all the talent to be a popular country artist. His strongest ability is his lyricism where he can create stories in his songs. His biggest drawback is he creates so much music so often and no matter what it is you can point to it and say that’s a Zach Bryan song. He is good at what he does but he struggles to do a lot. This is probably his best album and the strongest parts of it are the features to bring in some variance to his structured sound. A good album all together but he does get a bit repetitive after a while. 7.4/10
This was good, I enjoyed it for the most part, it was just sort of repetitive. I did like the songwriting, it just seemed every song was the same tempo, style, and subject. 3.5/5, but rounding down because I'll probably not listen to this album again, but I'll give Zach Bryan another shot on a different album.
I will admit that his vocal approach to the formulaic modern country format is novel, but I don't think his story telling is very evocative. Summertime's Close is fine but not my thing. Fear and Friday's is a good tune. That's about all.
This rating is more on me than Zach, had my fill of country already growing up in a rural town. I will say the production here is nice and crisp, and some of the instrumentals did surprise me. Bryan does infuse his tracks with more heart and genuineness than those who are in the genre just for the money, I just can't really get myself enthused about modern country music in general.
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