★★★★★
Not done rebelling ... Miranda Lambert. Photograph: Randee St Nicholas
Two-thirds of the way through Hard Staying Sober, just when you think the song has come to its resigned conclusion, Miranda Lambert explodes into life again. "Why ya think the world drinks?" she demands, and the song abruptly turns on a dime from melancholy to defiant solidarity.
Platinum, her fifth solo album, finds Lambert swaggering righteously like the Partonesque country superstar she is...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-06-13
★★★★★
"I ain't gonna get dressed up just to be your clown," Miranda Lambert sings about three quarters of the way through her sprawling fifth album Platinum. It's just one of many self-declarations-of vulnerability, of independence, of anxiety- on the 30 year-old singer's latest LP. Lambert is a shapeshifter on her latest record, trying on a half dozen genres (soul, Western swing, blues rock) for size on the sixteen-track album, but Platinum manages to maintain a sharp focus and sense of purpose...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-06-11
★★★★★
Just when you thought you had seen all of the colors and designs that make up Miranda Lambert, she turns the wheel and sends the gems tumbling into all new, amazing patterns. The newest kaleidoscope in her collection is made of platinum, and you'd do well to give it a spin. Ran isn't deviating from who she is or what she's done in the past. Her sassy collaboration with Carrie Underwood, "Somethin' Bad," has that piss and vinegar attitude that we expect and want from this Texas tornado...
- www.countryweekly.com
2014-06-12
★★★★★
Since beginning her career with one of the industry's most artificial jump starts--getting noticed on a talent competition reality show--Miranda Lambert has achieved pretty much every meaningless symbol of Nashville success that you can shove into a trophy case. She's been named "Female Vocalist of the Year" five times in a row at the Academy of Country Music Awards, and she's also won something called a Grammy. But she's refused to let her music follow suit...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-06-04
★★★★★
Miranda Lambert's ascent to the top of the country music world has always been marked by contradictions. Lambert is a reality TV ( ) also-ran who broke into the country charts with hard-charging, uncompromising singles like "Kerosene" and "Gunpowder & Lead." She's an artist who reinvents songs by fiercely idiosyncratic songwriters (John Prine, Fred Eaglesmith, Tom T. Hall) and duets with Nash Vegas royalty (Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood)...
- exclaim.ca
2014-06-14
★★★★★
On "Priscilla," Miranda Lambert compares herself to Elvis Presley's long-suffering wife back in the day, "married to a man who's married to attention." As elsewhere on her fifth LP, it takes a cheeky view of her ascent to country music Queen Bee - here as partner to would-be king Blake Shelton. But mostly it shows how Lambert earned her throne: by singing top-shelf songs in the voice of a woman getting real. Listening to her records is like eavesdropping in a hair salon...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-06-02
★★★★★
Country music is in a state of civil war, with old-time tradition on one side and the trucks'n'babes rock of Bro-Country on the other. Miranda Lambert, country's Beyoncé (with husband Blake Shelton as its Jay Z), plays both sides of the divide on this sixth album. The noisy mainstream rock of hits like Automatic and Somethin' Bad is a very distant cousin to the legacy of Cash and Parton, while All That's Left visits 1950s western swing, and the charmingly titled Old Shit celebrates "singing...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-06-01
★★★★★
Chad Cromwell's pounding drums and Glenn Worf's throbbing bass lay the foundation and set the stage for Miranda Lambert's explosive music that has country, pop, rock and even a few bluegrass sensibilities. The talented and beautiful young lady was on the first season of USA Network's "Nashville Star" show when Buddy Jewell won...
- rootsmusicreport.com
2013-12-08
★★★★★
Musically speaking, Lambert feels that her sound has grown: "I feel like I've upgraded a little as far as my songwriting and my vocals and my performance," Lambert said during an interview from her Texas home. "I've grown and I think it really shows in this record." Raw and honest, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend covers a wide spectrum of emotions including heartbreak, strength, rebellion, bitterness, desperation and fame...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
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