While the musician has refined and reduced the vast variety of sounds and distortion of his debut, the warmth of his vision remains.
The singer spends little time dwelling on the specifics of her heartbreak or fully mapping the album’s emotional landscape.
Against a backdrop of hopelessness brought about by personal heartbreak and global disasters, the album is an act of self-preservation.
We’ve ranked all 17 songs from the singer-songwriter’s watershed eighth album.