The Best Albums of 2007

By PopMatters Staff

From tech house to Radiohead and Americana to indie and everything in between, PopMatters picks the best 60 albums of 2007. [21 December 2007]

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology

By Matthew Fiander

Despite some very strong moments, Adams' goofy self-indugence rears its head just enough to keep Cardinology from being a great record. [3 November 2008]

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Follow the Lights

By Greg M. Schwartz

While it may only have two “new” songs, Lights is no toss-off. Each track may as well be new as far as Adams’ musical muse is concerned. [30 October 2007]

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals

By Evan Sawdey

Whether or not he's anal isn't really the issue. When it comes to sound, Ryan Adams simply can't catch a break. [17 August 2007]

Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger

By Jeff Vrabel

This is some of Adams's most professional-sounding, accesssible and brightly rewarding stuff since Gold, the Ryan Adams Album For People Who Don't Have Time For All This Other Stuff. [25 June 2007]

Ryan Adams: 29

By Zeth Lundy

Adams completes his promised hat trick of album releases for 2005 with this more subdued and reflective follow-up to Cold Roses and Jacksonville City Nights. [16 December 2005]

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Jacksonville City Nights

By Andrew Gilstrap

Ryan Adams returns to the plaintive pedal steel and late-night quiet that got him on everyone's radar in the first place. [3 October 2005]

Ryan Adams: Rock N Roll

By Jason Korenkiewicz

For an album named Rock N Roll, Ryan Adams’s third proper solo release is a difficult and dense listening experience. It takes many repeated spins to transcend the insider rock nods to get to the point where one can enjoy this album as its own entity.

Ryan Adams: Music in High Places: Live in Jamaica [DVD]

By Tim Slowikowski

With the DVD release of Ryan Adams: Live in Jamaica for the Music in High Places series comes some serious anticipation for which personality has been committed to the digital video format.

Ryan Adams

By Brian Neumann

Ryan Adams: Gold

By Andrew Gilstrap

Gold feels like a record hiding behind masks. Maybe Adams has spent so many years laying his heart out on the line that he’s trying to create a little distance

Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker

By David Sakowski

Heartbreaker lives up his auspicious live set and delivers one of the year’s best albums.