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80
Touches of Celtic, jazz, country and folk, but seldom rock, inform these lovely tunes that take their time as if on a leisurely stroll.
11y
70
Tracker seems like Mark Knopfler at his most personal and yet the furthest away from stardom.
11y
70
Scaled smaller than 2012's double-album Privateering, Tracker also feels suitably subtle, easing its way into being instead of announcing itself with a thunder.
11y
70
Knopfler's quicksilver guitar is understated, and he delivers stories of stoic ache like an old watchmaker on a pub stool — quietly riveting.
11y
60
Tracker may not quite reach the same heights as its predecessor – it features one too many misses for that to be the case – but it is another solid solo entry into his already impressive back catalogue.
11y
60
The quality of each song is consistently good, but the album doesn’t feel very cohesive when you step back to consider the whole package.
11y
He is experimenting here. Either you like that or you don't. I don't and I doubt you will either. Don't discredit Knopfler though, the man is a gift to our ears.
Tracker sees the great guitar giant from the past distance himself even more from the once beloved stardom and embrace the exact same aesthetic and sonority he's been involved with so deeply since the beginning of his solo carreer. Although there is nothing here that sounds terrible (his voice and guitar playing are still amazing, although not always put into good use), but most of these tunes are too derivative of his previously released material that it gets difficult to find something new ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes 6:40 | |
| 2 | Basil 5:44 | |
| 3 | River Towns 6:16 | |
| 4 | Skydiver 4:38 | |
| 5 | Mighty Man 5:54 | |
| 6 | Broken Bones 5:30 | |
| 7 | Long Cool Girl 5:05 | |
| 8 | Lights of Taormina 6:08 | |
| 9 | Silver Eagle 5:01 | |
| 10 | Beryl 3:10 | |
| 11 | Wherever I Go 6:26 |
Total Length: 1 hour
