Kira Isabella – Gone Enough

Our second-highest scorer follows up, fumbles slightly?

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[6.83]Alfred Soto: I expected these brawny guitars on Big & Rich’s comeback, not here. Of course “Gone Enough” isn’t the revelation that “Quarterback” remains, but if that song was a dispatch, this one is a report from the front lines, where she has no intention of being any guy with a truck’s plan B. If she keeps this up the Pistol Annies might need to be a foursome.
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Anthony Easton: The guitar work here — somewhere north of Top 40 rock and south of rockabilly — matches the spitting lyrics. It is of a certain type, but Isabella has amazing story telling skills and a chameleon tendency to know where nu-country is and where it’s going. I think she might be the Canuck who breaks through Nashville’s parochial fear of non-Americans.
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Edward Okulicz: Nothing more than a low-wattage Band Perry.
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Brad Shoup: She’s got electrified twang to fill a room, and a fiddle that enters like a stock sitcom character. It’s “God Blessed Texas” with a sentiment that other people can relate to, I suppose.
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Will Adams: I wished those chugging sixteenths on the pre- and post-chorus would stick around more. It’s the place where Kira Isabella’s fire rages the most powerfully.
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Thomas Inskeep: In all the right ways this screams of a next-gen Carrie Underwood, from its uptempo ass-kickin’-ness, to her voice (definitely reminiscent of Underwood’s, especially when she sings the word “enough”) to its lyrical content (not takin’ shit from a cheater). Isabella’s no copycat though; she’s got her own personality, full of sass for days. One of the year’s best country singles.
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