Heart Break
| Lady Antebellum
Heart Break
Heart Break is the seventh studio album by American country pop trio Lady Antebellum. It was released on June 9, 2017, through Capitol Records Nashville. The album serves as the "spiritual follow-up" to 2010's Need You Now[1]and is their first release since 2014's 747, with its three-year gap being the longest between two albums by the group to date. "You Look Good" was released in January 2017 as the record's lead single and has since become the group's thirteenth top 10 single on the Hot Country Songs chart. - Wikipedia
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Sounds Like Nashville
Heart Break proves that sometimes a creative break for a band can yield to new terrain.
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All Music
Perhaps the songs often resemble one another, but isolate individual tracks -- especially on radio -- and they each seem sturdy and friendly, the kind of music that is proudly pleasant.
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Taste of Country
While the album overall is polished and fresh, but themes of young love and heartache are dominant, bringing familiarity.
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The Young Folks
It’s safe to say that this album is another positive for the band. Overall, it is a very passionate album – it was obviously well thought-out.
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Celeb Mix
Overall, this album is full of incredible songs, with a mix of up-tempo catchy tracks and slower ballads. The stunning lyrics and impressive vocals make this a must listen for any country fan out there.
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Rough Stock
Heart Break is a strong collection which finds Lady Antebellum knowing who they are but building on with new layers and musical textures.
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Cryptic Rock
Gorgeous ballads sit alongside infectious dance-worthy tracks on Heart Break, a wonderful collection of sunshine that serves to remind listeners why Lady Antebellum are so darn good at what they do!
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NPR
By making small yet perceptible artistic tweaks like these, Scott, Kelley and Haywood show that they're attuned to their ever-changing environment and their own instincts. Theirs is an evolution that will bring an array of listeners along.
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Richer Sounds Blog
Overall, the album is solid with the high quality that you’d expect from the band. Whilst the album itself may not be platinum cover to cover, there’s definitely a couple of singles in there that could follow suit with their previous work.
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Your Life In A Song
They consistently deliver and have done so once again with a stellar album; probably their best since ‘Own The Night’ in 2011. There’s a renewed drive and power about it, with no fillers in sight.
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Building Our Own Nashville
This is a ‘must-have’ album for not just Lady A fans but for anyone, anyone who appreciates great music and wonderful vocals.
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Renowned for Sound
Ultimately, the country elements on Heart Break are too thin, too hidden in the mix, to provide much meat to the record, and the pop structures and sounds are woefully expected, failing to excite or differentiate themselves from the crowd.
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Country Standard Time
With "Heart Break," Lady Antebellum isn't doing anything especially new or innovative. But, as with the pounding drums and speedy banjo during "Teenage Heart," this trio creates melodic hooks that stick like arrows straight into the heart. Heart Break never sounded so good.
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MXDWN
Heart Break might not break any records this accomplished group have set for themselves, but it will certainly please their fan base — along with any other country listener looking for a little bittersweet reminiscing, a little partying in the dim bar light and a whole lot of heart.
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Cleveland
The best in the band's 11-year, seven-album history.
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Entertainment Focus
Heart Break is a solid album but I can’t help but feel a little underwhelmed.
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Mega Country
Heart Break returns Lady Antebellum back to their roots, giving fans exactly what they've been missing these past two years.
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Belles and Gals
With this stunning record, Lady Antebellum have cemented themselves as one of the best country music band’s of all time and this is, without doubt, their best LP to date.
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Spectrum Pulse
But as a whole... look, this fine, I'm sure Lady Antebellum fans will be plenty satisfied by this, but for a band who at its best can produce some tremendous songs I'm a little frustrated that album after album can't deliver more consistently beyond scattered pieces.
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Just Listen To This
A thoroughly tuneful record with for this listener too many songs centered on the ‘should we have split up’ theme. Maybe a few more story songs would take their heads as composers out into fresh territory.
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