On 'Black Sheep', Austin Meade delivers songs and stories that, like the young singer/guitarist himself, are contradictory yet cohesive. His influences - musical and otherwise - are as varied and rich as the small-town Texas soil that nurtured his talent, yielding 12 stellar songs ranging from the insinuating multi-layered musicality and storytelling of 'Déjà Vu' to the dark alt-pop of 'Happier Alone', and on further to the new-age, Sabbath-inspired 'Dopamine Drop'.