Prisoner – Ryan Adams – Classic rock meets singer songwriter Geffen style on Adams dissection of the emotional devastation leading to divorceįreedom Highway – Rhiannon Giddens – Story songs of slavery and its aftermath that peaks sky high and never falters, it moves through the blck experience with its eye firmly on the prize of ebony Americana So what s it? It is a utilitarian album for use by the stricken It opens eleven days after her death and closes three months after her death and is an accurate vision of grief and mourning. Early, very early, Elverum sings death is not for making art or singing about, and dismisses poetry.

The only pop masterwork of 2017 with a chance in hell of bettering it is the upcoming Taylor Swift. But this is the best pop record since 1989, a flawless pop stroke that puts Sheeran at the top of the pop firmamentĪ Crow Looked At Me – Mount Eerie – Phil Elverum, reeling from the death of his wife musician Geneviève Castrée at the age of 35, made an album about it. ÷ (Divide) – Ed Sheeran – This is his FutureSex/LoveSounds moment, an undeniable pop triumph from EDM to Irish jigs, Motown soul to big pop ballads, Sheeran wrote or co-wrote every song and the only other hand I can clearly see is son of Derry Johnny McDaid.

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