卡朋特完成了被延时的伦敦智慧女神神殿的演出，创造了观众人数的新纪录。英国发行了这场演出的纪念现场大碟。在老家，新大碟《有一种静谧》在六月夺金。凯伦在世纪城根据自己喜好设计的私房，几近完工。她开始广泛收集米老鼠纪念物品。理查德的收集热也从古典名车的上涨数字上得以体现，这些车大多是50年代到 60年代的，使得他在非音乐领域内得到了一大堆的奖项。他把车都存放在自己的库房内。

by Bruce Eder

The formula behind the Carpenters' albums was starting to get fairly routine -- a hit single and an oldie or two (which sometimes was the single) surrounded by some well-produced soft pop/rock, driven by electric piano, strings, and a guitar solo or two cropping up. "There's a Kind of a Hush" and "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" are the two most memorable tracks on this pleasant, well-sung, and well-played, but basically bland, album, A Kind of Hush. There are virtues here -- "You" has a good guitar solo by Tony Peluso, and the vocals on "Sandy" are radiant, but this record was where the real rot began to set into the Carpenters' fortunes, in terms of remaining connected to rock. Instead of covering Leon Russell's or Carole King's contemporary material, they're doing songs like "Can't Smile Without You" -- the latter is very sweetly sung by Karen Carpenter, and gets a lyrical but spare arrangement from Richard Carpenter, but they needed something more credible to the under-30 audience (and especially material that, if not attractive to guys in that age range, at least wouldn't make them self-conscious about listening to it with their girlfriends) on this album, and it wasn't here. If you close your eyes, it's possible to imagine Captain & Tennille, not to mention Debby Boone, taking lessons from this release, although Karen's voice was still beyond comparison with any of them.