Monday, 11 March 2019

Patty Griffin - Patty Griffin


Rating: 5/5

Review:
A very fine album

Patty Griffin is still great. She’s been making quietly excellent albums for so long now that it’s no surprise to find that she’s still at the peak of her form. Her voice is just fabulous here; haunting, expressive and beautifully controlled and the songs she sings with it are vintage Griffin. There isn’t a weak track on the album and some, like River for example, are among her very best, I think. She writes such beautiful melodies and combines them with thoughtful, insightful lyrics. River is apparently a response to her coming through breast cancer, but like so many of her personal songs it has a more universal sense – this time of resilience and indomitability.

This is, in short, a first-rate album from a genuine great of the genre. Warmly recommended.

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