May Your Kindness Remain

2018 studio album by Courtney Marie Andrews

Studio album by

Courtney Marie Andrews

Released

March 23, 2018 (2018-03-23)

Genre

Americana
indie folk

Length

42:59

Label

Fat Possum Records

Producer

Mark Howard
Courtney Marie Andrews

Courtney Marie Andrews chronology

Honest Life
(2016)

May Your Kindness Remain
(2018)

Old Flowers
(2020)

May Your Kindness Remain is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews. It was released on March 23, 2018 via Fat Possum Records.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.5/10^[1]
Metacritic	79/100^[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Financial Times	^[4]
The Guardian	^[5]
The Independent	^[6]
The Irish Times	^[7]
Mojo	^[8]
Paste	8.1/10^[9]
Q	^[10]
The Times	^[11]
Uncut	5/10^[12]

May Your Kindness Remain was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 79, based on nine reviews.^[2] The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? has the critical consensus of the album at a 7.5 out of 10, based on fourteen reviews.^[1] The aggregator Album of the Year assessed the critical consensus as 78 out of 100, based on ten reviews.^[13]

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
The Guardian	Best 25 Albums of 2018		^[14]
Paste	Best 50 Albums of 2018	21	^[15]
Rolling Stone	25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2018		^[16]
Rough Trade	Top 100 Albums of 2018	91	^[17]
Uncut	75 Best Albums of 2018	25	^[18]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Courtney Marie Andrews, except track 8 written with Jason Blynn and Peter Harper

No.	Title	Length
1.	"May Your Kindness Remain"	3:54
2.	"Lift the Lonely from My Heart"	4:57
3.	"Two Cold Nights in Buffalo"	3:28
4.	"Rough Around the Edges"	4:11
5.	"Border"	3:55
6.	"Took You Up"	4:46
7.	"This House"	4:03
8.	"Kindness of Strangers"	3:30
9.	"I've Hurt Worse"	4:14
10.	"Long Road Back to You"	6:01
Total length:		42:59

Personnel

Courtney Marie Andrews – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
Dillon Warnek – electric guitar, space uke
Daniel Walker – organ, Wurlitzer, accordion
Charles Wicklander – Wurlitzer, piano
William Mapp – drums, percussion
Alex Sabel – bass
C.C. White – background vocals

Additional musicians

Annie Jantzer – background vocals (track 8)
Kara Hesse – background vocals (track 8)

Charts

Chart (2018)	Peak position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)^[19]	185
UK Albums (OCC)^[20]	58

References

^ ^a ^b "May Your Kindness Remain by Courtney Marie Andrews reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "May Your Kindness Remain by Courtney Marie Andrews Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
^ Donelson, Marcy. "May Your Kindness Remain – Courtney Marie Andrews". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
^ Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (March 24, 2018). "Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain — 'emotional sustenance'". Financial Times. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
^ Hann, Michael (March 23, 2018). "Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain review – Americana on the brink of eruption". The Guardian. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ Gill, Andy (March 22, 2018). "Album reviews: Jack White – Boarding House Reach, Nina Simone – The Colpix Singles, and more". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-12. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
^ Breen, Joe (March 16, 2018). "Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain review – Sustained emotional connection". The Irish Times. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
^ Chick, Stevie (June 2018). "Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain". Mojo (295): 96.
^ Danton, Eric (March 21, 2018). "Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain Review". Paste. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ Fyfe, Andy (May 2018). "Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain". Q (384): 104.
^ Hodgkinson, Will (March 23, 2018). "Pop review: Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain". The Times. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
^ Deusner, Stephen (April 2018). "Courtney Marie Andrews: May Your Kindness Remain". Uncut (251): 23.
^ "Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain". Album Of The Year. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (June 20, 2018). "Best albums of 2018 so far". The Guardian. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ "The 50 Best Albums of 2018". Paste. November 26, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ Freeman, Jon; Hudak, Joseph; Moss, Marissa R. "25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2018 So Far". Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ "Albums of the Year 2018". Roughtrade.com. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ "Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2018". Uncut. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Courtney Marie Andrews – May Your Kindness Remain" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 28, 2018.