★★★★★
There is only one song over 4 minutes long on Little Big Town's fifth album Tornado, a drastic departure for a band known for their stunning harmonies and intricate vocal blends and longer than normal songs...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-09-13
★★★★★
The quartet Little Big Town hails from Homewood, Alabama, and their first hit was about living in the "Boondocks". Sometimes it seems like they choose for singles their songs that seem to most directly tap into small-town/rural imagery. Past success with those singles might be why the first single from their fifth album, Tornado, is called "Pontoon" and--yes--is a straightforward chronicle of relaxing on a pontoon boat. It's a bluesy bit of total fluff...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-09-13
★★★★★
On their fifth album, Tornado, Little Big Town makes a shameless bid for the mainstream success that has unjustly eluded them for the better part of a decade. It seems to have worked: With "Pontoon," the set's ingratiating earworm of a lead single, the band is responsible for country radio's inescapable summer anthem, which has even spawned its own "Call Me Maybe"-style karaoke video from a slew of country's A-list stars...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-09-06
★★★★★
The most omnipresent group in country, maybe even commercial pop, music right now might be the male-female-male vocal trio Lady Antebellum. Waiting in the wings this summer to steal the stage back is the female-male duo Sugarland, formerly a female-male-female trio (they're battling that departure out in court), with a new album out soon. Touring this year, after getting attention for their 2009 debut album, is the youthful foursome Gloriana, two women and two men who all sing together...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
There have been quite a few vocal bands in country music but none have been quite like Little Big Town. Mixing the male-female harmonies of Fleetwood Mac with country instrumentation and the current pop sensibilities favored at country radio, Little Big Town has found and filled a niche in country music that periodically crops up...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Little Big Town just keeps coming back. After a dud album for Monument, the group joined Clint Black's Equity label, landing two big sleeper hits and a platinum album, The Road to Here. Unfortunately, the label closed right after the next album came out, and not even Capitol Records was able to resuscitate it. The Reason Why, the band's first album exclusively for Capitol, should easily get LBT back on its feet...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
The most omnipresent group in country, maybe even commercial pop, music right now might be the male-female-male vocal trio Lady Antebellum. Waiting in the wings this summer to steal the stage back is the female-male duo Sugarland, formerly a female-male-female trio (they're battling that departure out in court), with a new album out soon. Touring this year, after getting attention for their 2009 debut album, is the youthful foursome Gloriana, two women and two men who all sing together...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-09-04
★★★★★
Great bands get to know themselves through the years and fine-tune what works for each release. Little Big Town has been paying attention. The country rock quartet outdoes itself on its fourth album by tapping in to its strengths — spine-tingling harmonies, offbeat arrangements, the melding of the classic and contemporary — and only occasionally indulging in shiny, airless Nashville production customs...
- www.boston.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Contemporary country music is hardly a meritocracy, but the fact that Little Big Town has yet to earn the commercial profile that their talent and critical clout deserve is a real head-scratcher. They've generally made wise choices for their singles, and their albums consistently boast greater depth than those of Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, or Lady Antebellum...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2010-08-25