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| Released | February 17, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2016 | |||
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| Length | 42:52 [1] | |||
| Label | PAX AM/Blue Note | |||
| Producer | Ryan Adams | |||
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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]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 [3] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Consequence of Sound | A [5] |
| Mojo | [6] |
| Slant Magazine | [7] |
| Uncut | [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]
| Publication | Rank | List |
|---|---|---|
| Billboard | N/A | 27 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [10] |
| Consequence of Sound | 1 | 25 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [11] |
| NME | N/A | 20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [12] |
| Paste | 13 | 20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [13] |
| Uproxx | 10 | 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far [14] |
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]
All tracks are written by Ryan Adams, except where noted. All tracks were produced by Adams
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Do You Still Love Me?" | Ryan Adams, Daniel Clarke | 4:00 |
| 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 | ||
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
Credits adapted from AllMusic. [16]
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| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label | Ref. |
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| United States | February 17, 2017 | PAX AM/Blue Note | [1] |
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