• Record Label: Columbia
  • Release Date: May 4, 2010
Metascore
65

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 11
  2. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. Perhaps the results are predictable, but they are satisfying, and it’s better to have new music from this duo than none at all.
  2. While Court Yard Hounds is a well-packaged and produced collection, its songs seem rather ordinary compared to Chicks material
  3. Robison's focus, on introspective ruminations and the vagaries of relationships, is relentlessly earnest. And as well-played as the music can be, lyrically it’s a very bumpy ride.
  4. Q Magazine
    60
    Essentially, it's another Dixie Chicks record with Robison's more expressive vocals replacing Maines's twang. [July 2010, p. 129]
  5. Natalie Maines' feistiness is missed, but Robison, who wrote most of the songs, has a way with a hook--and those harmonies make even the weepiest weepers go down smooth.
  6. Uncut
    60
    A deceptively sweet concoction. [Aug 2010, p.79]

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