Terms of My Surrender
by John Hiatt
  • Record Label: New West
  • Release Date: Jul 15, 2014
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  1. castala
    Jul 21, 2014
    8
    Tempus fugit
    As time goes by, so John Hiatt is feeling older. As it seems in many songs he wrote for this album, he speaks of time, age, suffering, good and bad, God and Devil, tough losses, broken love, etc. In most of them he uses his lower tone, and sings in a slow mood. It could be painful with music on a country mood, but the rhythm here is as smooth as it can be.
    I prefer this    Tempus fugit
    As time goes by, so John Hiatt is feeling older. As it seems in many songs he wrote for this album, he speaks of time, age, suffering, good and bad, God and Devil, tough losses, broken love, etc. In most of them he uses his lower tone, and sings in a slow mood. It could be painful with music on a country mood, but the rhythm here is as smooth as it can be.
    I prefer this latest release from the previous ones, « Mystic Pinball » (2012), « Dirty Jeans & Mudslide hymns » (2011), « The open road » (2010) and « Same old man » (2008). In all of these, there were three or four really songs in every of them, but as much others which were forgettable. Here, like in « Master of disaster » (2005), there is no song that could make an enormous hit on the charts, if anybody cares about this anymore, but the quality of all the album is at a higher level in general.
    And I really love when Hiatt is showing us his tongue-in-cheek humour, like in « Old people » here, his most funniest song since « Back on the corner » nine years ago.
    This artist still has a lot to give us. We should enjoy his skills while he’s still alive. If you’re sticking to the lyrics, he seems close to the end. But the melodies are still great. And it’s rather good.    … Expand

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
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  1. Classic Rock Magazine
    Dec 18, 2014
    80
    It's lush, grown-up, thoughtful, funny and very good. [Sep 2014, p.93]
  2. The Observer (UK)
    Jul 21, 2014
    60
    The playing crackles with live-in-studio spontaneity and Hiatt emerges a hard-travellin' hero.
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  3. Consequence
    Jul 18, 2014
    58
    A couple of the blues songs (“Here to Stay”, for instance) blend into the scenery and are soon forgotten, but the only real clunkers are the lighter fare, “Marlene” and “Old People”, which feel forced and unable to balance out the album’s darker moments.
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