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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