Golden will be released tomorrow and reviews are pouring in!

Billboard
Track By Track Review

1. Get To Me – Hillary Scott strikes a seductive sound on this light and easy number that flows very sweetly.

2. Goodbye Town – Quite possibly, the best vocal that Charles Kelley has put down yet. The lyrics strike a nostalgic tone – at least at first – but the chorus tends to suggest that the past is not somewhere he wants to be. The harmony notes in the chorus and at the end of the track suggest 80s rock. A definite single.

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Rolling Stone
General Review

Nashville stars Lady Antebellum shine on their new album, Golden, offering up a bittersweet batch of bright, rich tracks that often hide a deeper layer of sadness. Opener “Get to Me” sets the pace with lazy, ambling guitar and Hillary Scott’s lonely calls to her lover, and the band explores troubled nostalgia and small-town shackles on the gripping “Goodbye Town.”

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Huffington Post
General Review

After pulling out the stops with the heavily orchestrated grandeur of 2011′s platinum-selling album “Own The Night,” Lady Antebellum heads in the opposite direction with the stripped-down sound of “Golden.”
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Vancouver Sun
General Review – 3 out of 5 stars

The megaplatinum country trio, seemingly conceived for people who hate country music, return with their fourth album (not counting last year’s Christmas disc). Predictably, they don’t mess radically with the harmonious pop-rock formula: most of these songs sound as if they’re headed straight for the Billboard chart. And yet this album seems to go down a lot easier than their previous release, Own the Night.The songs seem less calculated and overcooked and the production — once again by Lady A and Paul Worley — is comparatively spare.

The group’s more subdued strategy is immediately apparent in the eloquent George Harrison-esque solo on the opener Get To Me (Have Tom Petty’s lawyers played this one beside Learning To Fly, we wonder?).

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It’s good that those Nashville darlings Lady Antebellum named their new album “Golden.” The songs fulfill every meaning of the word. They’re sun-kissed, expensively constructed, and bound to reap a mint.
Of course, like all Lady A ditties, they’re also lacking in little things like personality, detail and need. But, hey, why bother with all that when you’ve got a sound this bright and radio-friendly?
You may find yourself asking the same question as you hum nearly every song on the CD. Resistance is futile. The melodies catch the ear at nearly every turn. If they don’t, the arrangements do.
Take the first single, “Downtown,” already a No. 1 country smash. It has three — count ‘em — three guitar hooks, each enhancing the other. There’s a descending tickle of a guitar line, a chime of double-tracked Allmans-style Southern-rock, and a fine layering of pedal steel, floating between. Likewise, in “Goodbye Town” the bass line pulls you in a direction both surprising and urgent, much like the chorus of the band’s Grammy-winning, peak hit, “Need You Now.”

Like that song — in fact, like much of Lady A’s whole catalogue — nearly all the tracks are ballads with a backbeat. They’re also evenly divided between songs led by Hillary Scott and ones by Charles Kelley (the other guy, Dave Haywood, harmonizes and plays lots of instruments).

It’s telling that the male and female singers almost never play characters in a duet. This allows them to retain their images as chaste siblings rather than as something more threatening like, say, lovers. In that vein, both singers have a vocal appeal that’s equivalent to catalogue models. They’re mannequin-pretty.

Their plastic perfection suits the clichés and idealizations of the lyrics. Yet, one track shows how the band could tap more, if they only dared. The one truly emotive cut, “It Ain’t Pretty,” follows a heartbroken woman on a night out where she puts on her “lipstick a little too bright,” drinks too much, and has a one night stand she really doesn’t want. The words have all the specificity the rest lack, as well as the one vocal from Scott that truly hurts.

Another track stands out for a far more alarming reason. In the delusional “Generation Away,” the band pine to be seen as a modern answer to Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, as well as to channel the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. That last allusion draws a connection that’s even more offensive than anything in Brad Paisley’s “Accidental Racist.”

It’s a classic case of not knowing your place. In fact, Lady A has a worthy, if qualified, one: They’re irresistible ciphers.

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CAPITOL NASHVILLE trio LADY ANTEBELLUM is gearing up for the release of their new album “Golden” with a variety of TV appearances.

On TUESDAY, MAY 7th, catch “LADY A” on ABC-TV’s “GOOD MORNING AMERICA” and the syndicated television program, “THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW.” That evening, the group will hold an album release party at NEW YORK CITY’s THE McKITTRICK HOTEL. The VIP event will be open to select fans, with donations benefitting the MUSICIANS ON CALL charitable organization.

On WEDNESDAY, MAY 8th and THURSDAY, MAY 9th, LADY ANTEBELLUM will appear on NBC-TV’s “LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON.” MONDAY, MAY 13th takes the group to the E! network’s “CHELSEA LATELY,” followed by an performance on NBC-TV’s “THE VOICE” on TUESDAY, MAY 14th.

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