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But everyone (surely?) knows there's a difference between what sells massively and what represents true quality. Need You Now was met with uncertainty from several critics, unconvinced by the band's big sound but hollow soul (think Fleetwood Mac gone Music Row). It was a perfect FM record, ultimately, designed to be heard without being properly listened to. The album's title-track was a huge hit (making 21 here, and number two stateside), but no other single from the album touched its performance. Quality control, it seems, was lacking.
Own the Night doesn't alter the formula that's earned Charles Kelley, Hillary Scott and Dave Haywood their fortunes. Raucous boot-stompers kick up the dust around soppy slowies, with many a chorus dripping with the sort of gooey gobbledygook that typifies a thousand rom-coms. The opening (sort of) title-track is one of the former concoctions, albeit with a syrupy lead vocal from Kelley - more woe-is-me than let's-rock-out. Lead single Just a Kiss - their highest-charting single stateside since Need You Now - is one of the latter affairs, with Scott and Kelley both exchanging lines and singing in sync. But what could be tender comes across as uncomfortably forced. Both are fine vocalists, but neither conveys palpable emotion. Instead, producer Paul Worley layers on the strings, and does so again on As You Turn Away and Cold As Stone. It's a cheap trick, employed countless times in the past. Here, it distances the listener from any real feelings, performances buried beneath overly dramatic bombast.
The throwaway feel of Friday Night, which channels Bryan Adams in mischievous mood, is relief after so much weight elsewhere, and Singing Me Home is a sweetly twanging number warmed by subtle organ. The 'bonus' inclusion of an acoustic version of Need You Now feels desperate, though, as if the label didn't feel that these songs were strong enough stand up for themselves, free of association with the band's previous highs. Truth be told, they might be right - but just as McDonald's continues to sell millions of burgers every day, there are plenty of fans ready to embrace Own the Night just as they have Lady Antebellum's previous efforts.
--Mike Diver
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Lady Antebellum have kind of made country music cool to listen too. I have their previous album and loved it so i didn't hesitate buying this one.
There is a great mix of upbeat songs, sad songs, slow songs, dancing songs.
This to me is one of the those albums you put on the stereo, turn off all the lights and lie on your bed and just listen too.
My favourite songs are Just a kiss, Cold as stone, As you turn away, Somewhere love remains and heart of the world.
They all happen to be the slower songs on the album but this is what i love the most from them. There is such a wonderful tone to their voices and their vocals blend so seamlessly together.
Not just for fans of country music, very easy to listen too and beautiful songs.
Give it a go, you wont be disappointed..
Haven't stopped playing this on my iPod. Current favs are tracks 3, 6, 9 and 12 (is there a pattern there)?
So, if this is my fav album of 2011 and Amy MacDonald's "A Curious Thing" was my fav of 2010, it puts me as your Radio 2 person these days. But I really do feel that if the younger generation tried this they would love it!
Go buy it!
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