The Firewatcher's Daugther (2015)

"Brandi Carlile is exactly the type of strong-willed, vibrant and inventive female artist country music needs. "The Firewatcher’s Daughter" is a heavily thematic album, though this may take a few listens to reveal itself. The album tasks itself with measuring love and distance in this poetically spatial manner, hoping to enhance understanding about the nature of human cohabitation in life. Numerous songs deliver lines articulating such appreciation, devotion, and sometimes downright symbiotic need, that the natural motors of self-reflection about one’s own relationships with others are sent into high gear. "The Firewatcher’s Daughter" may not be classified as country, but it could be, and probably should be, or at least should set a standard for how to take country and roots music in a new direction without clipping the ties to the original roots of the music, and doing so in a way that inspires and enhances the feelings of life, instead of automating them into mundane audio patterns." (Saving Country Music)