Miranda Lambert - Wildcard

The Guardian 80

(RCA)
The Tennessee star’s seventh album is a robustly entertaining set of droll country songs about men, booze and doing the laundry

From Loretta Lynn’s Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind) to this year’s huge US hit from Luke Combs, Beer Never Broke My Heart, alcohol has never been far from country music’s woes, and perhaps accounts for its candour. It positively sloshes through this endearing seventh LP from Tennessee’s Miranda Lambert. She whiles nights away in Dark Bars, finds nothing works like Tequila Does, and on the extremely droll Way Too Pretty for Prison, a duet with Maren Morris, the pair ponder murderin’ a cheatin’ man but decide against it because “they don’t have rhinestone ball and chains / lunch trays don’t come with chardonnay”.