Prisoner (Ryan Adams album)

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Prisoner
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Studio album by
Ryan Adams
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2017
Recorded2016
Genre
Length42:52 [1]
Label PAX AM/Blue Note
Producer Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams chronology
1989
(2015)		Prisoner
(2017)		 Wednesdays
(2020)
Singles from Prisoner
  1. "Do You Still Love Me?"
    Released: December 7, 2016
  2. "To Be Without You"
    Released: December 23, 2016
  3. "Doomsday"
    Released: January 19, 2017

Prisoner is the sixteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Ryan Adams. It was released on February 17, 2017. The album is Adams' first album of original material since his 2014 album, Ryan Adams , and was preceded by the singles "Do You Still Love Me?", "To Be Without You", and "Doomsday". [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Consequence of Sound A [5]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Slant Magazine Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Uncut Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Pitchfork (6.2/10) [9]

Prisoner received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 79 based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [3]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic rated the album four out of five stars, calling it "charming", and said that "it's not a record that wallows in hurt, it's an album that functions as balm for bad times." [4] Writing for Slant Magazine , Jeremy Winograd rated the album four of five stars and said that Prisoner is "one of Adams's most sonically artful albums to date." [7]

Accolades

PublicationRankList
Billboard N/A27 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [10]
Consequence of Sound 125 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [11]
NME N/A20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [12]
Paste 1320 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [13]
Uproxx 1050 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [14]

Commercial performance

Prisoner debuted at number eight on the US Billboard 200 with 45,000 album-equivalent units, 42,000 of which were pure album sales. [15]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ryan Adams, except where noted. All tracks were produced by Adams.

Prisoner [4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Do You Still Love Me?"Ryan Adams, Daniel Clarke4:00
2."Prisoner"Adams, Mike Viola 3:12
3."Doomsday" 3:02
4."Haunted House" 2:42
5."Shiver and Shake" 3:05
6."To Be Without You" 3:22
7."Anything I Say to You Now" 4:51
8."Breakdown" 4:01
9."Outbound Train" 4:21
10."Broken Anyway" 2:57
11."Tightrope" 3:57
12."We Disappear" 3:30
Total length:42:52
Prisoner (B-Sides)
No.TitleLength
1."Where Will You Run?"2:33
2."Juli"3:53
3."Are You Home?"3:57
4."No Words"2:54
5."Halo"3:00
6."It Will Never Be The Same"4:03
7."What If We're Wrong"3:10
8."Broken Things"3:38
9."Stop You"3:26
10."Hanging On to Hope"2:35
11."Let It Burn"3:14
12."Crazy Now"3:35
13."You Said"3:45
14."Please Help Me"3:45
15."Too Tired to Cry"6:53
16."Stop Talking"3:38
17."The Empty Bed"3:53
18."The Cold ('End of the World Edition' Bonus Track)"2:58
19."Lookout ('End of the World Edition' Bonus Track)"2:51
Total length:67:40

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic. [16]

Technical

Charts

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)LabelRef.
United StatesFebruary 17, 2017
 PAX AM/Blue Note [1]

References

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  2. ↑ "Ryan Adams Announces New Album 'Prisoner' « Radio.com". Archived from the original on December 23, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Reviews for Prisoner by Ryan Adams". Metacritic. CBS Interactive . Retrieved October 27, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Prisoner – Ryan Adams". AllMusic . All Media Network . Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Melis, Matt (February 16, 2017). "Ryan Adams – Prisoner". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Review: Prisoner by Ryan Adams". Mojo . London: 94. March 2017.
  7. 1 2 Winograd, Jeremy (January 14, 2017). "Ryan Adams: Prisoner Album Review". Slant Magazine . Retrieved February 14, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Review: Prisoner by Ryan Adams". Uncut . London: 23. March 2017.
  9. ↑ Cohen, Ian (February 15, 2017). "Ryan Adams: Prisoner". Pitchfork . Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  10. ↑ Billboard Staff (March 31, 2017). "27 Best Albums of 2017 So Far". Billboard . Retrieved July 2, 2017.
  11. ↑ CoS Staff (June 12, 2017). "25 Best Albums of 2017 So Far". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved June 12, 2017.
  12. ↑ Thomas Smith (April 13, 2017). "20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far". NME . Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  13. ↑ Paste Staff (May 3, 2017). "20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far". Paste . Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ Uproxx Staff (June 5, 2017). "50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far". Uproxx . Retrieved June 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Caulfield, Keith (February 26, 2017). "Future Earns Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard . Retrieved March 8, 2017.
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  24. ↑ "Ryan Adams: Prisoner" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
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  26. ↑ "Irish Albums: Ryan Adams discography". Irish Recorded Music Association. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  27. ↑ "Album – Classifica settimanale WK 8 (dal 2017-02-17 al 2017-02-23)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  28. ↑ "NZ Top 40 Albums Chart". Recorded Music NZ. February 27, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
  29. ↑ "VG-lista – Ryan Adams". VG-lista . Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  30. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  31. ↑ "TOP 100 ALBUMES — SEMANA 8: del 17.02.2017 al 23.02.2017" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España . Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  32. ↑ "Sverigetopplistan – Sveriges Officiella Topplista". Sverigetopplistan . Retrieved February 25, 2017. Click on "Veckans albumlista".
  33. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Ryan Adams – Prisoner". Hung Medien. Retrieved March 1, 2017.
  34. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  35. ↑ "Future Earns Fourth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart". Billboard . Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  36. ↑ "Ryan Adams Chart History (Top Rock Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
  37. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten 2017". Ultratop. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
  38. ↑ "Top Rock Albums – Year-End 2017". Billboard. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
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