Read our review of Eric Church's 'Evangeline vs. the Machine,' his new album that incorporates a choir, strings, and horns.

Country superstar Eric Church’s new album is called “Evangeline vs. the Machine,” and if you know his iconoclastic ways - iconoclastic at least by the standards of country, and probably beyond that, too - then you know which side in that titular equation he’ll be favoring.

Even as he’s signed to one of Nashville’s biggest labels, Eric Church has amassed more than a little experience over the past nearly two decades in pushing back against the typical Music Row way of doing things, and thus, bursting the confines of how and when artists are expected to create and release albums, approach touring and build a fanbase.