They’ve got the hottest country song in the nation with their chart-topping smash, “Break up with Him,” and as of last Friday, Old Dominion has unleashed even more amazing music with the release of their album, Meat and Candy. With each of the 11 songs co-written by at least one member of the band, the album was in every way a labor of love, as the guys shared some of their feelings and hopes for their first full-length album. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Meat and Candy is already racking up incredible reviews, with Entertainment Weekly cheering the album as Old Dominion’s “deceptively smart, occasionally cheeky, stellar debut.” Nice!
• Check out a cool Q&A with the band in a new feature on Parade.com!
• You can pick up Meat and Candy everywhere you find great tunes, including Apple Music.

  Old Dominion’s Matthew Ramsey says it was a big kick for him to hold the band’s finished Meat and Candy CD for the first time. (:18)
“We actually got a couple advance copies, and I don’t know, just somethin’ about holdin’ it in your hand — it has that kind of old-school feel to it, the whole cover and everything. It’s like, man, I don’t know — it totally made me feel like a teenager, like, ‘Whoa, look at this thing! I got it!’ And I wanted to like, read all the stuff that I knew was in there, but I still wanted to read it.”

  Old Dominion’s Trevor Rosen says that fans who hear Meat and Candy will get a great representation of what the band is all about. (:17)
“We’ve been doin’ this a long time, and we’ve worked hard, and we’ve written hundreds and hundreds of songs, and these are the songs that, you know, I guess we loved the most and sounded like us the most. So, you know, when they hit ‘play,’ they’re gonna hear exactly who we are.”

  Old Dominion’s Geoff Sprung shares what he’d like fans to know about the band’s album, Meat and Candy. (:10)
“We’re really proud of it, and we worked really hard, and I think it shows. I think they’ll hear it, and I hope they have as much fun listening as we did makin’ it.”

  Old Dominion’s Whit Sellers talks about the band’s new album, Meat and Candy. (:11)
“I think maybe what sets it apart is all of the history that’s behind it: all of the hours and hours and hours of playing together that are behind it. It’s an organic thing, you know? That’s us playing.”

  On the release of Meat and Candy, Old Dominion’s Brad Tursi hopes that the band has delivered the kind of album that their fans will really love. (:09)
“We just hope that it lives up to what they want it to be, and you know, we’re super proud of it, and hopefully, they’ll love it as much as we do.”