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- Summary: Ryan Adams returns with his band The Cardinals to release its latest album produced by Tom Schick.
- Record Label: Lost Highway
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Country, Singer-Songwriter
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What makes them walk away, after all these years? These years of learning in the hard way By the lessons from the tears I know it's not a game But it... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Ryan Adams and his backing band The Cardinals have got their sound down to a science, all right: Cardinology, as embodied by their fourth album in as many years, is a precisely calibrated method of creating cool, reflective pools of vocal harmonies and pedal steel, accented from time to time by fiery electric-guitar licks.
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If only a few of the tracks rise to the greatest heights of which Adams is capable--like the poignant closing salute to sobriety, 'Stop'--the rest remain impressive pictures of craftsmanship.
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Cardinology is a classic-rock record to the bone, nodding to influences that Adams has conjured before but never so well.
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Cardinology lays even deeper into the language of rehabilitation, grace and renewal.
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If this album is a misstep, it’s a minor one with more than a few ?moments of redemption--the latest missive from a talented group of musicians likely to find their way back to the path before long.
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Ultimately, Cardinology serves as another minor indictment of Adams’ famously lackadaisical internal editor. Neveretheless, it is still, almost infuriatingly, a stretch better than most people at their best.
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Following those pleasantly modest, Paste-worthy beginnings, however, Adams draws the blinds entirely and Cardinology starts sliding into self-indulgent banality of a sort so pinched and uninviting it makes Conor Oberst seem like Will Rogers.
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