![]() ![]() Each of the 12 tracks was originally released digitally on one of 2023’s full moons, before being swept up into this year-closing collection. ![]() The biggest difference about this album may lie in the downright newfangled way he’s chosen to release the material, in piecemeal isolation, before giving us the big data dump. Let’s put the really heavy stuff aside for a second. The guy who staged arguably the most mesmerizing arena tour of 2023 isn’t about to lose sight of any big pictures at this stage in his life, especially the really, really big picture. It’s not quite fully a song cycle, in its meditations on life and death, but it’s just close enough to give another elder statesman’s reflections on those themes from this year - Paul Simon’s “Seven Psalms” - a run for its mortal money. But there are some shifts to consider, once you really go digging in the dirt to find the main concerns of “i/o.” Like: a 73-year-old man is much likelier to make an album focused largely on issues of old age and the ultimate transition than the 52-year-old from whom we last got a collection of fresh material. ![]()
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