Critical reception
Beulah was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on seven reviews. [1]
Andy Gill of The Independent praised the album, stating: "on John Paul White's Beulah, the dark emotions of tracks like "Fight For You" and "Hope I Die" mingle with the bitterness of "The Once And Future Queen" and the low self-esteem of "I'll Get Even" to create a strangely subdued portrait of emotional turmoil, couched in Southern folk and country modes". [5] AllMusic's Thom Jurek wrote: "it's chock-full seductive, attractive melodies and sweet singing, but its lyrics are searing enough in their emotional and spiritual honesty, that they cut to the bone. Great". [2] Jonathan Bernstein of American Songwriter declared: "the record is, in many ways, the very project longtime fans of the Alabama singer-songwriter might have been hoping for for years: a direct collection of sharply-written originals that place White's vulnerable vocals front and center". [3] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian determined: "it's hard not to hope White explores this direction further in future, but for now Beulah will do: mainstream and commercial, but odd and cranky with it, an album that sounds like it wasn't so much written and recorded as got off his chest". [4]
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