A Song for You

NPR ranked the record as the #126 greatest album made by a female artist, saying:

The late Karen Carpenter’s singular voice — a no-frills contralto — shone whenever she stepped onstage, but nowhere more brightly than on The Carpenters' A Song for You. While ‘Top of the World’ was the 1972 album’s biggest hit, its first single, ‘Hurting Each Other,’ was a power ballad turned loving, angsty and dramatic. Besides displaying her mastery of the lower vocal range on the album, Karen Carpenter also showed off her talents on the drums here. On A Song for You, you get a sampling of her chops — among others, as she also played electric bass – on instrumental tracks like ‘Flat Baroque.’ In the years following her death, many prominent musicians would point to her complementary skills as a singing drummer as a key influence, one that still rings true today.