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Nov 18, 2016There’s something pleasingly organic, though, in Weight’s cohesiveness; it asks for patience and rewards it, weaving true tales of regret and resilience into one fiercely honest, gloriously flawed whole. Bless this mess.
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Dec 7, 2016Unflinchingly honest, emotionally resonant and deeply personal.
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Nov 18, 2016Produced by Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf and Eric Masse, the music deepens that unsettled feeling with arrangements that feel raw--sometimes even incomplete--by current country standards. ... Yet none of this is the product of indifference or fuzzy thinking.
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Nov 18, 2016The Weight of These Wings isn't produced like a country-pop album, so it demands attention and rewards close listening. It is by no means tight, but its excess is also its asset because immersion reveals different pleasures with every spin.
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Nov 17, 2016The Weight of These Wings has 24 beautifully crafted songs, and not a melody or word is wasted.
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Nov 17, 2016The Weight of These Wings matches the take-no-prisoners attitude of her lyrics with music that travels unexpected routes but often winds up touching the soul.
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Nov 17, 2016The Nashville star's most ambitious LP, a range-y two-disc set ditching country's mainstream playbook for the sort of Great Album rock acts used to spit out regularly back in the day.
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Dec 6, 2016While Wings is hardly a showcase for any kind of vocal gymnastics, Lambert’s voice remains the star throughout.
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MagnetDec 15, 2016Weight is the inexorable comedown: a graceful and timely maturation that might just take a little editing to come through clearly. [No. 138, p.56]
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Nov 17, 2016There are a few clunkers here. ... But these are minor complaints, and there's a masterpiece of a divorce album hidden in here.
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Nov 17, 2016When this album whispers, as it does on large swaths of the second half, it neuters Ms. Lambert’s gifts. Even with a voice as signature as hers, there’s little to elevate songs like “Good Ol’ Days” or “Dear Old Sun.”
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 53 out of 68
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Mixed: 0 out of 68
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Negative: 15 out of 68
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