Ocean
| Lady Antebellum
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Ocean
Ocean is the eighth studio album by American country pop trio Lady Antebellum. The album was released on November 15, 2019, through BMLG Records. This is their first album with the label, and first to be produced by Dann Huff.-Wikipedia
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Lady Antebellum is here with Ocean, a 13-song album with all of the signature touches country music fans have come to love and expect from the award-winning trio. In the end, this is the Lady Antebellum album we hoped we’d get. It hits all of the notes and beats we have grown to crave from them.
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Cryptic Rock
Ocean is predictable Lady Antebellum: exquisite harmonies that craft simple, catchy songs that will make you smile, tap your toes, and sway your hips. Admittedly, some pieces of the collection are basically well-done filler: beautifully performed, somewhat banal yet comforting background noise.
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Riff Magazine
Haywood describes Ocean as a return to form for Lady Antebellum, going back to the core of who the band is. And the core of this band is the fearless way they create: crafting songs that are achingly personal but still resonate with everyone who hears them.
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All Music
They mean to offer comfort, and that's precisely what Ocean delivers.
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Building our own Nashville
Ending with title track Ocean and ending beautifully so. I love it when an album ends in a powerful, hard-hitting ballad. The emotion in Hilary’s vocals on this track are breathtaking. Lady Antebellum really know how to bring believable feelings to their music and they sing as if they mean every word.
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The Young Folks
Ocean is for Lady Antebellum fans. There are a few catchy songs on the album that may get picked up by new listeners, but it mainly shines a light on the intimate relationships of the band. It will appeal to those who have come to know them over the last thirteen years by stepping back from arena crescendos into more introspective tracks.
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Your Life in a Song
The album feels very much like a return to home for the trio. They’ve gone back to basics, focusing on the tried and tested formula that has worked for them over the years, without chasing anything new or experimental. The result is a beautifully polished piece of work with moments of great depth and meaning, which will delight loyal fans far and wide. Probably their best album since ‘Own The Night’ back in 2011. It’s good to have them back and firing on all cylinders!
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Belles & Gals
Overall ‘Ocean’ is an outstanding collection of country ballads that take Lady Antebellum back to their roots and really puts the band back on the map as the best country group on the scene – their best album to date.
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Sounds like Nashville
As they explore an emotional spectrum throughout the album, the group says they were walking in fearlessness, writing and recording the songs they knew embraced their truth and brought them back to the solace that has long kept fans gravitating to them. “I feel like these are a collection of songs of ‘this is who we are,’” Scott determines. “I feel like you’re hearing us free again.”
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Six Shooter Country
The album allows Lady A to let loose too. “You Can Do You” is a swaying live-and-let-live anthem inspired by the hustle of Nashville’s crowded streets, while “Boots” combines heartland-rock crunch with Celtic fiddles. On the swirling “The Thing That Wrecks You,” the trio gets an assist from fellow Country music superstars Little Big Town, who supply background vocals; its dreamy coda features the two groups’ vocals intermingling, weaving in and out of one another and occasionally hovering over the gauzy guitars.
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MSN
The harmonies between vocalists Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott are as charming as ever; again, their lyrics are about love. Through the chirpy ukuleles and upbeat percussion of “Alright” and the swooning drama of “The Thing that Wrecks You”, the band sound as if they might have lost their lustre. But it’s hard to blame them.
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Entertainment Focus
With their new label home and a deeper dive into the writing and song choices, Lady Antebellum have reignited that spark and magic that made them so special in the first place. Without a doubt Ocean is the best album they’ve ever released and it has me excited about where they can go from here.
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Eastern Echo
This album is a beautiful album that the group should be proud of. It gets better and better with each listen, and these waves are worth the ride.
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Tennessean
Instead of returning with a handful of snapshots, Lady Antebellum dives headfirst into “Ocean,” a 13-track sea of overpowering emotion that swells with honesty and stirs with intimate nuance.
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