Ryan Adams - "Chris"

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Out February 17, 2017.

This album is incredible. First favorite album of 2017.

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A- from Entertainment Weekly. 4/5 from Slant. 6.2/10 from Pitchfork.

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I consider myself a casual fan at best but this is easily my favorite album of his. Heartbreak really does bring out the best in artists; shout out to Mandy Moore!

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4/5 from All Music Guide.

Picking up the thread left hanging from 2014's eponymous album -- in retrospect, his 2015 cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 seems even more of a detour -- Ryan Adams winds up diving ever deeper into early-'80s sounds and sensibilities on Prisoner. Such supple sounds are carefully constructed with producer Don Was, a professional who helps Adams articulate the AOR ideals he initially essayed in 2014. Prisoner sounds warm, open, and inviting, its welcoming vibes contradicting how it's an album born out of pain, a record written in the aftermath of Adams' divorce from Mandy Moore. Sadness haunts the corners of Prisoner -- it's there in the very song titles, beginning with the opener "Do You Still Love Me" and running through its aching closer, "We Disappear" -- but it's not a sorrowful record, not with its smooth edges and warm center. All of this is an outgrowth of the aesthetic Adams pioneered in 2014, one that he lent to Jenny Lewis' The Voyager, and the reconstituted soft rock suits him well: it’s a salute to the past and Adams always respected tradition. If the songs on Prisoner follow a conventional path of heartbreak -- a man sorting through the remnants of a broken romance -- the sound helps give the album an identity. Adams largely relies on cinematic classic rock tricks, a move underscored by how "Outbound Train" seems like an answer to Bruce Springsteen's "Downbound Train" -- toward the end of the record he starts to thread in a few spare acoustic confessionals, songs that play like subdued nods to his Americana past -- and that's the charm of Prisoner: it's not a record that wallows in hurt, it's an album that functions as balm for bad times.

He performed on Fallon last night:

www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/ryan-adams-do-you-still-love-me/3472683

www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/video/ryan-adams-to-be-without-you/3472675

[Hurricane Lee]

I don't really care for Do You Still Love Me? Actually, the only songs that really stood out to me were Shiver and Shake (which is amazing), To Be Without You, and Outbound Train. Otherwise, it just reminds me of a lesser Springsteen album, with even the shorter songs seeming interminable. To me, the highlight of his career will always be La Cienega Just Smiled. That song, to this day, is still one of my favorite songs of the last 20 years and heads and shoulders above everything here.

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A 17-track album of Prisoner b-sides is on iTunes now.

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Pleasant surprise! Still my favorite album of the year.

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From last night:



I'm loving the Prisoner outtakes. Obviously not up to the quality of the main album, but I enjoy just almost every song on it.

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Love this! I'm not usually into this type of music, but the album makes for a very pleasant/engaging listen.

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"Doomsday" live on Jimmy Kimmel last night

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[DJ General]

Love it

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Something coming tomorrow...

exileonbourbon.com/tomorrow/

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Headlining Exile on Bourbon St in NOLA.

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He's releasing 3 new albums this year. First one is titled Big Colors.

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I’m loving FTR. Can’t wait to hear the album in full.

[Hurricane Lee]

pitchfork.com/news/ryan-adams-accused-of-abuse-by-phoebe-bridgers-mandy-moore-underage-fan-more-adams-denies-it/

Disgusting. Outside of La Cienega Just Smiled and his 1989 cover album, I always found him to be an overrated, miserable hack. Not the least bit surprised by any of this. People who wallow in misery tend to want to inflict their misery upon others.

[Hurricane Lee]

Big Colors will not be released. I'm assuming the others won't be either.

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Feb 6, 2019 3:05:03 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

I’m loving FTR. Can’t wait to hear the album in full.

Why can’t more of the artists I actively DISLIKE be the predatory creeps?! 😩

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I still love his music.. but going to The Daily Mail of all places with his apology and also announcing he's recording new music (even if they asked him about new music, he could have declined to answer to keep the focus off him) makes me really question how genuine this is.

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Yeah, his apology felt like it was geared more towards wanting his audience to forgive him (and consume his new music, in turn) vs. his accusers.

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He released one of the 3 canceled projects from last year, Wednesdays, today.

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Indie release (via EMPIRE). #12 on iTunes.

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Big Colors is out today. Much better than Wednesdays which I didn’t like at all besides “Dreaming You Backwards”.

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Chris came out this past Friday. The songs aren't as instant as the ones on Big Colors, but I like it better than Wednesdays. Sonically similar to Prisoner.