Crows (album)

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Crows
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 9, 2010
Genre Folk, Country Pop
Length48:07
Label Rykodisc
Producer R.S. Field, Allison Moorer
Allison Moorer chronology
Mockingbird
(2008)
Crows
(2010)
Down to Believing
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic 79/100 [1]
Review scores
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BBC Favourable [5]
Boston Globe Favourable [6]
Popmatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [8]

Crows is the seventh studio album by singer/songwriter Allison Moorer. It is her first for new label Rykodisc and sees her reunited with producer R.S. Field for the first time since 2004's The Duel. Moorer wrote 12 of the 13 songs on the album while she was between labels and expecting her first child. Featuring a more intimate sound and recorded in four days in September 2009 with no overdubs, [9] the album earned plenty of acclaim with Slant Magazine writing: "Moorer's performance here is arguably a career best. As a fully realized, heady concept that is all but flawless in its execution, Crows joins Hardest and Duel as the third unqualified masterpiece of Moorer's rich career" [8] while AllMusic wrote that "Crows is a mature and artful set of keenly intelligent pop tunes from a singer and songwriter determined to avoid easy categorization." [2]

Contents

An acoustic EP, titled Crows Acoustic, was released on May 25, 2010 and included six tracks.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Abalone Sky" Allison Moorer 3:37
2."Goodbye To The Ground"Moorer4:02
3."Just Another Fool"Moorer2:46
4."The Broken Girl"Moorer3:36
5."Should I Be Concerned"Moorer4:44
6."When You Wake Up Feeling Bad"Moorer2:40
7."Easy In The Summertime"Moorer4:12
8."The Stars & I (Mama's Song)"Moorer3:11
9."Still This Side Of Gone"Moorer4:05
10."Like The Rain"Moorer3:46
11."Sorrow (Don't Come Around)"Moorer3:57
12."It's Gonna Feel Good (When It Stops Hurting)"R.S. Field3:34
13."Crows"Moorer3:57

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Folk Albums (Billboard) [10] 11
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [11] 18

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