Stupid Love

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Total Tracks: 13   Total Length: 47:24

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Consistently Excellent

Palomino-Royalle

Wish I had found this earlier. It's definitely one of my top 3 albums for 2009. She really has a beautiful way with a melody, and the album is full of great harmonies.

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It's the voice...

Jeb

Great songs, great singing, and far enough removed from mainstream country that anyone could enjoy it.

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Nice, gentle pop

squintydan

This is Mindy's poppiest album, and it may be her best.

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Sweet Sweet Voice

EMUSIC-0080661F

Sweet voice,beautiful songs! Mindy takes me from hopeless to hopeful.

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Get this One

funoka

More great music from Mindy Smith -- a national treasure!

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Highly recommended

lewsurfer

I don't believe this album was met with the same amount of fan fare as her last release, but I believe it to be the best so far. Mindy's a good song writer and she has a beautiful voice. Anyone wanting to hear a better representation of this album can do so at cmt.com. You can stream the entire album. (at least for now)

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They Say All Media Guide

After the tasteful Southern-accented and acoustic-leaning sound of Mindy Smith’s first two albums, Stupid Love finds her dipping her toes into something closer to contemporary pop. Smith is a long, long way from transforming herself into Taylor Swift, but the snappy rhythms and percolating basslines on “Highs and Lows” and “Love Chases After Me” are a good bit more radio-friendly than Smith’s earlier work, and “What Love Can Do” recalls the muscular grace of classic era Fleetwood Mac, suggesting that she’s eager to play to a broader audience than she has in the past. Ian Fitchuk and Justin Loucks produced Stupid Love with Smith, and while they’ve dressed up the arrangements and added just a touch of polish to the recording and mix, thankfully Smith herself seems little changed by the new surroundings; her voice is as supple and gracefully balanced as ever, and the 13 songs she wrote (or co-wrote) for the album are literate and emotionally honest stuff, even if broken hearts and alcoholic self-medication pop up fairly often in the lyrics (though her duet with Daniel Tashian on “True Love of Mine” finds her in more contented form). However, while Stupid Love’s best moments show she can move her music in different directions and make it work, the arrangements and production too often cover the same ideas over and over, and the album sounds a bit bland and repetitive as a result. It doesn’t have to, since the songs generally sound as tuneful and well-crafted as her earlier work, but Stupid Love sounds curiously chicken-hearted when it reaches for its pop gestures, a shame since the songs where she pushes hardest in that direction are the ones that succeed the most. – Mark Deming

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