Breaking Rust is one of the first AI-generated music projects to break through in country music in a real way, with the chart-topping track “Walk My Walk.” That tune—with its soulful vocals, narrative bravado, and sparse production—positions Breaking Rust downstream of recent Southern-rock-inspired country/pop stars like Luke Combs and Teddy Swims, and more broadly evokes the freewheeling spirit of the outlaw country movement of the ’70s and ’80s. Lyrically, the five songs on this EP favor individualism and an anti-establishment mentality, with dusky arrangements to match. There’s more than a little blues influence on the EP, too, connecting Breaking Rust to the broader genre tent that is Americana. “Whiskey don’t talk back” employs a kind of call-and-response interplay between Breaking Rust’s vocals and Delta-inspired resonator, and closing track “Love Don’t Live Here” pairs a loping, bluesy progression with go-for-broke vocals.