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Mar 19, 2013Musgraves has a sense of humor, too, and all of these traits add up to make Same Trailer Different Park more than a collection of songs just aiming for the country charts.
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Mar 19, 2013Her major label debut, which moves from country waltz to roadhouse blues, from rootsy singer-songwriter narratives to irresistible country pop, follows its own relentless arrow throughout, and the result is one of the most fully-formed, arresting debuts Nashville’s seen in years.
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Mar 19, 2013Each track evokes an emotion, a giggle, a tear or a memory, but always a hunger for what’s next.
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Mar 19, 2013On her confident, melodic major-label debut, Musgraves' vocals are pleasingly agile, but what Same Trailer Different Park continually showcases is her writing prowess.
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Mar 22, 2013The finest lyricist to rise up out of conscious country since Miranda Lambert, if not Bobby Pinson himself.
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Mar 26, 2013A gritty girl dug in, she embraces her Bob Dylan overtones (the harmonica on “My House”), Roy Orbison steel cry and mariachi Eagles-tinge (“I Miss You”) and a tumble of revival slap ’n’ stomp (“Stupid”). This is no conventional pop-country supernova.
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May 14, 2013Musgrave just paints a picture of their shared solitude, and she lets us see our absurd selves in the lives of others.
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Q MagazineJun 17, 2013Songwriting thus warm and wise can't be as easy as Musgraves makes it sound. [Jul 2013, p.108]
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Mar 19, 2013The album showcases a songwriting voice you won't hear anywhere else in pop: young, female, downwardly mobile, fiercely witty.
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Nov 15, 2021She’s got a superb knack for melodies, even if it means swiping them from Radiohead (“I Miss You” is a blatant “Creep” rip, probably another country first) and maybe Jimmy Eat World (“Silver Lining”). “Dandelion” is so gorgeous that anything other than teenage notebook poetry would wreck its mood.
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Apr 11, 2013She sings with an affectless detachment reminiscent of, say, Aimee Mann, and uses it to cut sharply through the lies people tell themselves.
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Mar 20, 2013Ms. Musgraves has a sweet character to her sound, which allows her to deliver a cynic’s wisdom in the voice of an inquisitive child.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 121 out of 136
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Mixed: 7 out of 136
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Negative: 8 out of 136
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