Listening to the Texas Gentlemen is like listening to a survey of American music in the 20th century; there are scraps of soft rock, outlaw country, organ jazz, gutbucket soul, Willie Nelson, surf rock, Electric Light Orchestra. It's all there, and it's all the Gents, who formed when playing backup to Kris Kristofferson, George Strait and a number of other country luminaries, before becoming their own enterprise when they had studio time in Muscle Shoals and no one to back up at it. Their first album, TX Jelly, was one of our favorites of 2017, and their sophomore album, Floor It!!!, is like that album in a multiverse; there are horn lines, deft songwriting, instrumentals that sound like car chases, and an album that is begging to blow out the shitty speakers of a Caprice. For our money, this is the country album to beat in 2020.