Miranda Lambert Sounds Perfectly at Home on the Wandering Travelogue ‘Palomino’: Album Review
variety.comAndrew Barker Senior Features Writer“Palomino” is Miranda Lambert’s fourth studio album of the past decade, but that number doesn’t quite capture the tear she’s been on.
That period also saw her release three albums with her trio Pistol Annies, as well as last year’s stripped-down demo collection “The Marfa Tapes,” on which Lambert and fellow Texans Jack Ingram and Jon Randall traded tunes and banter over a campfire.
And she’s hardly been cranking out assembly-line product: 2016’s purgative post-divorce double-album “The Weight of These Wings” seemed strenuously positioned to be her masterpiece — fairly so, because it was — and while 2019’s “Wildcard” was far lighter in tone, it also saw Lambert stretching her sound to accommodate new genres, from new wave to Motörhead-style heavy metal.
Nothing she’s done of late has been a radical departure, but she’s taken pains to avoid resting on her laurels. Considering that track record, “Palomino’s” most surprising quality is its seeming effortlessness.
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