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Nov 1, 2011With due respect to her previous fine efforts, Four the Record is easily Miranda's best album yet.
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Nov 14, 2011This does wind down into your basic quality country album.
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Oct 28, 2011Four is her most vivid effort yet, with brilliantly observed songs about lust (''Fine Tune'') and disappointment (''Same Old You''), as well as a stirring celebration of diversity (''All Kinds of Kinds'').
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Nov 8, 2011Four the Record retain all the pain and personality that drove those dark songs [of her first two albums] and redirects her energies toward some of her best and most eloquent singing and songwriting yet.
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Oct 31, 2011With Four the Record, she's digging deeper than ever before and finding considerable riches.
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Nov 1, 2011The bevy of writers and co-writers guiding Lambert results in a ranging, not especially cohesive album that makes up for the occasional dud (the schmaltzy power ballad "Better In The Long Run," a duet with Lambert's husband Blake Shelton) with plenty of solid earworms (the catchy mid-tempo "Safe") and a couple of welcome left turns (the loping, back-porch sing-along "Easy Living").
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Nov 2, 2011On a rock solid and expansive set of songs, Lambert mixes backbeats, production styles, fuzzed-out vocals, slinky slide guitars, and other offbeat elements into a cohesive whole.
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Nov 1, 2011This successor represents a further evolution of her talent as both creator and interpreter.
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Nov 2, 2011The real strength here is the feline sharpness of Lambert's voice.
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Oct 31, 2011Without a thematic through line or recurring lyrical motifs or meaningful efforts at myth-building or any of the other sophisticated flourishes that have made her albums so rich, Four the Record is left as a solid collection of better-than-average songs cast in arrangements that offer a progressive take on modern country.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 39 out of 45
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Mixed: 1 out of 45
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Negative: 5 out of 45
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Feb 15, 2012
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Nov 6, 2011
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Nov 6, 2011