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".
Critical reception
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".
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." 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."
Accolades Publication Rank List Billboard N/A 27 Best Albums of 2017 So Far Consequence of Sound 1 25 Best Albums of 2017 So Far NME N/A 20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far Paste 13 20 Best Albums of 2017 So Far Uproxx 10 50 Best Albums of 2017 So Far
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.
Track listing
Personnel Credits adapted from AllMusic.
Ryan Adams – guitar, bass guitar, lead vocals, synthesizer, piano, harmonica, cover painting, photography, producer Johnny T. Yerington – drums, percussion, photography Charlie Stavish – bass guitar (1, 11, 12), engineer, mixing Mike Viola – guitar (1) Daniel Clarke – organ (1) Jason Boesel – drums (1) Joe Sublett – saxophone (11) Technical Noah Abrams – photography Beatriz Artola – engineer, mixing Reuben Cohen – mastering Rachel Jones – assistant engineer Phil Joy – engineer Lee Foster – assistant engineer Gavin Lurssen – mastering Scott Newton – photography Andy West – design
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (2017) Peak position Italian Albums (FIMI) 49 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) 4 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) 33 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) Click on "Veckans albumlista". 3
Year-end charts Chart (2017) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) 143 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) 72
Release history Region Date Format(s) Label United States February 17, 2017 PAX AM/Blue Note
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