A few years in the past, a younger, up-and-coming nation singer crooned about how “they are saying you’ll be able to’t go house once more”, of leaving house, transferring on and doing one of the best you’ll be able to. ‘The Home That Constructed Me’ went on to grow to be Miranda Lambert’s greatest hit on the time – and nonetheless stays certainly one of her most iconic. However now, 20 years into her profession and a bonafide celebrity, Lambert has left Nashville to return house, to her native Texas, rediscovering herself within the course of.
Consider Lambert’s aptly titled tenth album, ‘Postcards from Texas’, as life classes advised by vignettes of a roadtrip throughout the Lone Star state. (It’s additionally the place she recorded the album, her first time doing so since her independently launched self-titled 2001 document.) In some moments, she’s completely happy simply sitting with the nostalgia of a reminiscence (the geography-driven ‘Trying Again on Luckenbach’ and ‘Santa Fe’). Throughout others, she’s weak and regretful of the chaos wrecked by her free-spirited methods (the beautiful solo-written ‘Run’ and self-aware ‘Manner Too Good At Breaking My Coronary heart’).
On the coronary heart of this homecoming of the prodigal daughter is the luxurious ‘No Man’s Land’. Right here, she warns a person about how she is free, they usually can love her if they need to, however belief her to stay true to herself: “So love her like a Mustang / Like a wild factor / Higher let her run free.” That could be very a lot the essence of the document, of somebody who’s comfy in her pores and skin as a wildflower, acknowledging all the luggage that comes with it, but in addition discovering a second wind with companions (be it co-producer Jon Randall or husband Brendan McLoughlin) who embrace the mess together with her.
By no means one to drown out her music with an excessive amount of earnestness, although, ‘Postcards from Texas’ might be as cheeky as it’s honest. Whether or not it’s Lambert gleefully daring a dishonest lover to proceed stepping out (“What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine / So go on, child, have an actual good time,” she sings on ‘Alimony’, with a superb play on the phrase “Alamo”) or a far-flung story of an opportunity assembly with a pot-smoking, gun-toting stranger on the run from the “coppers” (‘Armadillo’), they’re proper at house with the sassiest of her hits.
Lambert is feisty, humorous and free on ‘Postcards from Texas’, which feels just like the singer now not has something to show to anybody. It would fall again on style tropes now and again – in fact, there’s at all times that one track about setting shit on fireplace (‘Wranglers’) or consuming a little bit an excessive amount of (‘Bitch On The Sauce’) – and could be a little too ballad-heavy, however the nation celebrity’s tenth album is as charming as it’s witty and stirring. After a very long time away, Lambert’s lastly again house, wholeheartedly herself and basking in that self-assuredness.
Particulars
- Document label: Vanner Information/Republic Information
- Launch date: September 13, 2024
