★★★★★
For a band to revisit an album released only 6 months ago, there must be a compelling reason outside of an album 'tanking.' And while Golden certainly didn't have the brisk sales of Need You Now or Own The Night, it was certainly not 'tanking' (scanned sales are nearly 500k before the release of "Compass" to radio from Golden Deluxe) and the band's compelling reason is because they found the song "Compass" and time to write "And The Radio Played" and "Life As We Know It" and didn't want to wait...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
No one ever said country music was actually dirty. The lyrics may be full of torn shirts and jeans, drinking whiskey in dusty bars, and tearing down the highway in a Chevy truck, but the aesthetics of the modern country record are seamlessly polished. Lady Antebellum have been delivering shiny cuts of country rock for two records now, and their third, Golden, comes as a solid, if slightly predictable, release...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-05-10
★★★★★
After losing steam trying to create a worthy follow up to the seminal hit "Need You Now," Nashville's multi-Grammy-winning Lady Antebellum returns with a vengeance on the plucky threesome's fourth release, Golden. For a brief instant, Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, and Dave Haywood seemed destined to become victims of mega success and overexposure (particularly after the release of 2011's uninspired Own the Night), but one listen to Golden immediately declares that Lady A has returned to form...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-05-09
★★★★★
There was an overarching sense of foreboding, an at times almost Gothic (at least for them) mood, to Lady Antebellum 's 2011 album Own the Night. If it was a Fall/Winter album, then their follow-up Golden is a Spring/Summer album; bright in tone. The opening number "Get to Me" sets a relaxed, sunkissed tone, musically, though Hillary Scott's singing still carries a fair amount of desperation...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-05-08
★★★★★
When Lady Antebellum was recording its fourth album, Golden, it's easy to imagine someone saying, "Loosen up, will ya?" The group itself has admitted it was ready for a musical attitude adjustment after the string-heavy drama of 2011's Own the Night. And for the most part, Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood succeeded in rolling up their sleeves and rolling down the car windows on Golden. Still, it's a tale of two albums...
- www.countryweekly.com
2013-05-08
★★★★★
What, might you ask, can turn a Lady Antebellum detractor into a fan? Well, a feel-good single like "Downtown," the best feel-good radio song since Little Big Town's "Pontoon," certainly doesn't hurt that cause. However, "It Ain't Pretty" was the musical evidence that that righted this particular skeptic...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-05-04
★★★★★
They should've called it Own the Airwaves. When Lady Antebellum released their last album in January 2010, "Need You Now" had already been a radio hit for months. This time around, the band unleashes Own the Night nearly half a year after debuting its lead single, "Just a Kiss," on an episode of American Idol...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
are almost at the stage of fame in the UK where they don't need explaining. But just in case you're new here... Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood are a country pop threesome hailing from Nashville, Tennessee. Since forming in 2006, they've accumulated countless Grammy and Country Music awards, and have been nominated for a Brit. Some readers may recall and performing a version of the band's Need You Now at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert in June 2012...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
A Christmas album by America's unfathomably all-conquering Lady A? Why didn't they think of it before? In fact, they almost did - six of the 12 tracks have been recycled after first appearing on an EP in 2010, which spells out how much effort the country-pop trio have lavished on this project. That said, the group are masterly soft-pop harmonisers, and when the vocals are matched by a worthy arrangement, the result is highly palatable...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-12-13
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