The significance of Griffin choosing to make this album self-titled, this deep into a career of ten diverse and uniformly excellent albums (eleven including the equally excellent live document A Kiss in Time) and at the age of 55, is impossible to ignore, and adds to the sense one might already have from the music that Patty Griffin is something of a summation - a distillation - of where she has come to in all that time.
It's simpler and quieter, and more closely tied to the version of folk she's developed over her career than 2015's Servant of Love, and the gentleness is befitting. It doesn't have as many obvious song highlights as many of her previous records, but the musicality is at the same high standard as ever.
It's simpler and quieter, and more closely tied to the version of folk she's developed over her career than 2015's Servant of Love, and the gentleness is befitting. It doesn't have as many obvious song highlights as many of her previous records, but the musicality is at the same high standard as ever.
