Description
The following summarizes the album "Revolution" by Miranda Lambert. The album is about Lambert's journey from her first two albums, which were about her life before she met Blake Shelton. Lambert has changed since then, and this album reflects that. The album has slower songs and harder songs, and Lambert's vocals are stronger on some of the slower songs. Lambert is more comfortable with this album than her previous two albums, and Dead Flowers is her strongest vocal performance to date.
While Miranda Lambert's first two albums spun tales of kerosene fires, bar fights, and firearmed vengeance, REVOLUTION finds the Texan taking some degree of comfort in her relationship with Blake Shelton, whose influence helps govern the album's mellow moments. Lambert has never played by anyone's rules, be they dictated by Nashville or society in general, but she has carved out her own set of principles over the course of a four-year career. Accordingly, REVOLUTION offers a strong, cohesive take on what has quickly become the "Lambert sound:" a blend of lilting ballads and loud, fire-breathing anthems, many of which owe as much to rock & roll as country. She's more comfortable with the slower songs this time around, and "Dead Flowers" is perhaps her strongest vocal performance to date. Even so, the harder numbers continue to pack the strongest punch.