10th Solo Studio Album on 45rpm 180g Double LP!
Mastered at Half-Speed by Miles Showell at Abbey Road!
TAS Rated 4/5 Music, 4.5/5 Sonics in the July/August 2024 Issue of The Absolute Sound!
2025 Grammy® Award Nominee:
• Best American Roots Song: "Ahead of the Game"
Mark Knopfler's tenth solo studio album, One Deep River, features 12 unhurriedly elegant new songs, with his warm Geordie vocal tone, poetic storytelling lyrics and deft, richly melodic guitar playing all present and dazzling as ever.
One Deep River offers an unstoppable flow of future Knopfler classics, with their customarily learned lyrics and refined guitar textures. They draw on a lifetime of genre-crossing ingredients and influences in blues, folk, rock and beyond, and as usual, reveal their charms with unhurried grace and depth.
['Ahead of the Game' is] a dreamy, propulsive spin on the expert-level guitar-pop Knopfler has been kicking out for decades, metropolitan but seasoned with notes of blues, country, and folk.
...a clutch of well-written, impeccably played songs...
The pace is unhurried, the mood wistful. The trademark sonics straddle the stratosphere. At times, Knopfler casts an eerie spell, as on the Celtic-tinged blue-collar soliloquy 'Sweeter Than Rain.' But he also cuts loose—the snarling 'Scavenger Yard' opens with a high-energy guitar barrage and speaks of a marginal life on 'the killing floor.' And he dishes a funky blues shuffle on 'Two Pairs of Hands,' a nod to the late J.J. Cale.
Features
- 180g Vinyl
- Double LP
- 45rpm
- Half-Speed Mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios
- Gatefold Jacket
- Vinyl Made in Mexico
Selections
Side A:
- Two Pairs of Hands
- Ahead of the Game
- Smart Money
Side B:
- Scavengers Yard
- Black Tie Jobs
- Tunnel 13
Side C:
- Janine
- Watch Me Gone
- Sweeter than the Rain
Side D:
- Before My Train Comes
- This One's Not Going to End Well
- One Deep River
