In These Silent Days
| Brandi Carlile
In These Silent Days
In These Silent Days is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, released via Low Country Sound/Elektra Records on October 1, 2021. -Wikipedia
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PopMatters
Unlike many pandemic music projects, there are no filler tracks or wasted space on Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days. Each song stands on its own stylistically.
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Rolling Stone
Brandi Carlile Refines Her Strengths on Seventies Rock-Inspired ‘In These Silent Days’
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Metro Weekly
At the top of her game, Brandi Carlile returns with another reflective, captivating album.
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Saving Country Music
In These Silent Days is a strong, inspired, challenging, propulsive, and ultimately, convincing argument for Brandi Carlile continuing her role as the premier performer in modern Americana.
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Spin
Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days Is Brilliantly Intimate.
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Country Queer
If In These Silent Days, with its range of styles and conflicting themes, is any indication, she is both closer to and further from this higher level of consciousness than ever before.
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Paste Magazine
With her talent and charisma, and this group around her, it’s no wonder Carlile is the star she was always meant to be, and there’s certainly nothing about In These Silent Days that will stop her rise.
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mxdwn Music
Though the piano ballads are forgettable, the rest of In These Silent Days work around Carlile’s weaknesses and play up her strengths. It’s a very good album—though it could’ve been better.
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EW
Brandi Carlile is a portrait of grace and acceptance on In These Silent Days.
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UNF Spinnaker
Brandi Carlile’s most recent album is filled with beautiful ballads and strong messages, and will no doubtingly only aid her career’s growth.
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Riff Magazine
In These Silent Days may not be as great as Blue—very few albums are—but it shouldn’t disappoint fans of Brandi Carlile. With her voice in better shape than ever and her heart still firmly on her sleeve, it should help her win even more people over.
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The Young Folks
it’s the most compassionate and unflinching collection of the artist’s career thanks to the fresh clarity her memoir’s reflection and self-examination provided her. Carlile found plenty of empathy and encouragement, resistance and recovery, and confession and acceptance when she retreated, but she also found a new meaning in the otherworldy haze of introspection.
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The Mercer Cluster
Carlile sings tenderly, earnestly, soothing the souls of listeners of all ages. Especially after the past couple of years of collective turmoil, many of us have been diving into our psyches to reflect. Carlile reminds us to use these reflective periods as processes of forgiveness, not punishment.
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Music Matters Media
Carlile’s voice is perfectly suited for everything she writes, while the production throughout the record finds the perfect balance. Silence – even metaphorical – has rarely made more meaningful noise when it does on In These Silent Days.
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Renowned For Sound
In These Silent Days feels like a companion piece to Carlile’s memoir. It is lyrically self-reflective with songs that feel like a lullaby (Stay Gentle) and others that feel like a call for help (When You’re Wrong). Carlile has used her time in isolation to study her past and in doing so has created an autobiographical album; an album that shows us that there is light at the end of the tunnel if we learn from our mistakes.
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Herald Standard
In the end, Carlile’s bumps in the road and temporary setbacks of the past serve as motivation to build a life on a solid foundation that can stand the winds of change in a way that provides protection from the imperfections that challenge us daily.
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Bernard Zuel
It’s all done well. It’s all done supremely well, actually. If these are our times, this album has fixed its place in our feeling of it and, we may come to see, in our telling of it.
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Entertainment Focus
‘In These Silent Days’ is another triumphant body of work from Carlile. She has set her own high bar with her previous work and this album meets them with ease. How Carlile isn’t a bigger commercial success is quite baffling but this album should see her add even more awards to her already jaw-dropping haul. ‘In These Silent Days’ is an album that people can put on to help them process what we’ve all been through the past 18 months and no artist has captured that quite so eloquently as Carlile has.
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Off the Record
Carlile has created a phenomenal, compelling and cohesive record – a cinematic landscape, sonically and lyrically. Carlile is a genre unto itself, offering an important, authentic and vulnerable voice in the musical landscape, an artist who consistently understands and perceives where she wants her place to be in musical history and follows that course through.
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Hotpress
Americana master channels her inner glam.
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Owl Radio
All in all, this album was great. Brandi Carlile tells a story with each song. That quality of songwriting and storytelling is something that not a lot of today’s artists have. I recommend that people listen to this album. It will not disappoint.
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Spectrum Culture
As Carlile finds a vision for the life she wants to lead, she questions rightness repeatedly.
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In Review Online
In These Silent Days breaks the COVID-19 album mold, with Carlile toward introspection and intense emotionalism without giving in to insularity.
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RTE
US singer Carlile both shoots from the hip and offers words of solace on her seventh album.
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Lyric Magazine
Carlile’s catalog is uniformly strong, with several high points, and In These Silent Days is another one of those points.
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AllMusic
it is unmistakably the work of Brandi Carlile, who once again proves she's one of the best singer/songwriters of her generation.
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High Res Audio
In These Silent Days makes a strong, inspired, challenging and convincing case that Brandi Carlile is still convincingly fulfilling her role as a leading artist of modern Americana.
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Aimsel on the Record
“In These Silent Days” is going to make her even bigger and more loved than she already is. This is it. She’s a superstar now. Be ready, world. Be ready.
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Main Street Nashville
Brandi Carlile's talent rings clear on 'In These Silent Days'.
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Ben's Beat
Shifting between genre lines with ease and appealing to a wide audience of music-lovers, Carlile once again brings listeners on an emotional journey.
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The Aquarian
Brandi Carlile LP Is a Harmonious, Human Reminder to Venture On.
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