To Be Without You

Prisoner
Studio album by
Ryan Adams
ReleasedFebruary 17, 2017
Recorded2016
Genre
Length42:52[1]
LabelPAX AM/Blue Note
ProducerRyan 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]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Consequence of SoundA[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]

Accolades

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]

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 Viola3:12
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
  • 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

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label Ref.
United States February 17, 2017
PAX AM/Blue Note [1]

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