The Incredible Machine
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The Incredible Machine
The Incredible Machine is the fifth studio album by American country music duo Sugarland. It was released on October 19, 2010 via Mercury Nashville Records. -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
Any remnants of country music left in Sugarland are wiped clean on The Incredible Machine, replaced by spit-shined arena pop that puts a premium on sky-high choruses.
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The New York Times
There are blatant errors of judgment on this album.
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Slant Magazine
Many country fans are going to dismiss the album simply because Sugarland has gone pop, when the far greater issue is that The Incredible Machine is just awful of its own accord.
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The Washington Post
"Machine" opens up a new front in Sugarland's war on Nashville complacency, exploding the boundaries between country, pop and arena rock in new and ultimately unpleasant ways.
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BBC
Ultimately you have to admire the precision tooling, the cunningly-gauged parallel levels of bigness and blandness, the ruthlessness – the only-too-plausible machine.
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Los Angeles Times
The new stuff will most assuredly get audiences on their feet; whether it leaves them with anything beyond visceral thrill as they exit the arena is another matter.
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Cleveland Scene
It’s the duo’s loosest and most engaging record, filled with country-pop songs that rarely reach too far outside of their comfort zone.
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Newsday
It quickly becomes clear that the country band has all sorts of new inspirations. The problem is they don't know how to harness it.
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Financial Times
An over-produced, over-sung, relentlessly upbeat attempt to ape Lady Antebellum’s crossover success among non-country fans.
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American Noise
You can’t have a great album without great songs, and The Incredible Machine simply doesn’t.
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Star Tribune
"The Incredible Machine" an unwelcome unraveling of the Sugarland formula.
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Country Universe
Where were the adults to tell this A-list act that the music wasn’t working?
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American Songwriter
The Incredible Machine succeeds big time, and may make these guys even less welcome to certain factions of Music Row as they continue to change the face of what is considered “country.”
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All Music
The Incredible Machine is a collection of (mostly) competent if unremarkable songs, held together by slick-- often sterile --production.
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Rough Stock
The incredible Machine may not be the ‘same-ol’ album and it certainly isn’t something that’s even remotely traditional country music but what the album turns out to be is a fantastic rumination on the human condition of life, love and the meaning of.
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Uproxx
Forget the big feel of arena rock; Sugarland is going straight for the majesty of stadium rock. Every song is meant to reach the rafters.
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Country Music Rocks
The Incredible Machine is nothing short of incredible as it includes quality, creativity and personality.
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Eat Sleep Drink Music
An impressive machine, surely.
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No Depression
You can shuffle this into a mid-80s mix of Simple Minds and Big Country without any tears or fears.
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