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Turn on a country radio station these days and after a while you’ll feel like you’re listening to the same song about trucks and beer over and over again. A full run-through Florida Georgia Line’s new album, “Anything Goes,” produces pretty much a similar experience; only a couple of slower tracks offset the list of rollicking country songs about back roads and day drinking that all seem to blend together around about the halfway mark.

Florida Georgia Line gets its name from the home states of the two members, Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, who have been releasing music together for about four years, but only really exploded onto the country music scene with their hit song “Cruise” in 2013, which still seems to be everywhere on the radio a year later thanks to that slightly off-putting remix with the Nelly rap verse. It’s clear that the band hasn’t really made any musical progression between that release and this album; everything is still by-the-numbers country. With lyrical gems like “Get your party right, it’s a Friday night,” and “Sunset, twilight, Friday night, round back, chill a dollar fifty Miller High Life,” it’s easy to see that, the duo’s obsession with Friday nights notwithstanding, it’s not exactly going off-script with the new album. Much like the rest of the country music currently being released these days, the pair’s favorite thing to do is to name-drop alcohol and car models in its songs—unsurprisingly, Jack Daniels and Chevy seem to pop up in almost every song.

“Sun Daze,” the second single from the album, seems like a strange choice for a fall release, but it’s fitting for a record which revels in the mentality in which every day is a summer weekend and all the girls are wearing cutoff jeans. Lead single “Dirt” proves to be just slightly more interesting, twisting the love ballad form into an all-American appreciation of, you guessed it, dirt.

Still, as much as the musical world loves to pile on the anti-country bandwagon and bemoan its connect-the-dots booze-girls-trucks formula, “Anything Goes” at least manages to craft a catchy take on the same old country songs. Songs like “Smoke” have nailed the pop-country balance, marrying Kelley and Hubbard’s drawls with piano and a suitably melodramatic chorus, accented with just the right amount of banjo to reassure listeners that while the song may easily slot into top-40 radio, Florida Georgia Line has its roots in the South.

To be fair, what you see is what you get with Florida Georgia Line. You won’t be shocked or too excited about any of the tracks on this album, but if you’re already a fan and a subscriber to Florida Georgia Line’s brand of bro-country, then you’ll enjoy “Anything Goes.” If you detest country music with a burning passion, then this album isn’t likely to change your mind anytime soon. Different strokes. “Anything Goes” certainly hasn’t added anything new to the country mix, but it does manage to riff off it pleasantly enough.