Name: Back To Us [Amazon Exclusive Deluxe Edition]
Brand: UNIVERSAL INT. MUSIC
SKU: 141872608
Price: 9.91 USD
Availability: InStock

Back To Us [Amazon Exclusive Deluxe Edition]

Rating

Album: Back To Us [Amazon Exclusive Deluxe Edition]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Yours If You Want It	More Info...
2)	Hopin' You Were Lookin'	More Info...
3)	I Know You Won't	More Info...
4)	Dance	More Info...
5)	Back to Us	More Info...
6)	Kiss You While I Can	More Info...
7)	Vandalized	More Info...
8)	Are You Happy Now (With Lauren Alaina)	More Info...
9)	Hands Talk	More Info...
10)	Thieves	More Info...
11)	Love What You've Done With the Place	More Info...
12)	Roller Rink	More Info...
13)	Our Night to Shine	More Info...

Album: Back To Us [Amazon Exclusive Deluxe Edition]
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Yours If You Want It	More Info...
2)	Hopin' You Were Lookin'	More Info...
3)	I Know You Won't	More Info...
4)	Dance	More Info...
5)	Back to Us	More Info...
6)	Kiss You While I Can	More Info...
7)	Vandalized	More Info...
8)	Are You Happy Now (With Lauren Alaina)	More Info...
9)	Hands Talk	More Info...
10)	Thieves	More Info...
11)	Love What You've Done With the Place	More Info...
12)	Roller Rink	More Info...
13)	Our Night to Shine	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: Joe Don Rooney, Rob McNelley (electric guitar).
Recording information: Starstruck Studios, Nashville, TN; The Grip, Nashville, TN.
Photographer: David McClister.
If the title of Back to Us suggests that the three members of Rascal Flatts have decided to ditch everything extraneous and return to their roots, well, that's intentional. Upon its spring 2017 release, Jay DeMarcus claimed in the press release, "There was a nostalgic feeling between the three of us while in the studio for this record, a feeling that was more reminiscent of our first albums," a move that might've been necessary after the band's sly modernization on 2014's Rewind. That album was recorded with producer Howard Benson -- whose best-known collaborations include Kelly Clarkson, 3 Doors Down, and DAUGHTRY -- who perhaps gave the record too bright a crossover sheen, but Back to Us finds the group collaborating with busbee, the producer who helmed Maren Morris' excellent 2016 debut, Hero. Back to Us isn't nearly as ambitious as Hero -- there's not a trace of hip-hop in its rhythms, although there is some R&B -- but busbee helps push the veteran trio toward a hipper adult contemporary. The shift is crystallized on "Vandalized," a song co-written by neo-outlaw sensation Chris Stapleton and Luke Laird: it's a soul song at its heart, so busbee gives its verses a nimble modern R&B flair, but Rascal Flatts straighten out the song by its chorus. No matter how many feints toward modernity the trio makes -- another is the Lauren Alaina duet "Are You Happy Now" -- the group remains cheerfully square, prizing gentle melodies, slick harmonies, and shiny surfaces. That's been their specialty since 2000, and Back to Us delivers the goods just as reliably as any of the nine albums they've released since. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine