LeAnn Rimes – Remnants: ‘A big sound but lacking believable intimacy’

The country star is back with her 13th studio album
John Aizlewood28 October 2016

Much married, multi-millionselling country superstar LeAnn Rimes is the Nashville series made flesh.

And when she begins her 13th album “All the lines across my face tell you the story of who I am…” on her overwrought version of Brandi Carlile’s The Story, she’s not one to flinch from choosing a song that gets behind the glamour.

She is, though, flinching from country music and there’s barely a twang of pedal stell to be found on Remnants.

Instead, it flits awkwardly between the saccharine MOR of Mother, the finger-clicking gay anthem Love is Love is Love and the off-off-Broadway belter How to Kiss a Boy.

Remnants has a big sound and Rimes is at her most big-voiced, but she’s too often betrayed by her lack of believable intimacy.

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