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The album is also a recognition that while heartbreak has confounded poets since the beginning of time, it remains an unknown.

The American poet and novelist Walt Whitman once wrote, “I contain multitudes.”

Because I think he was calling himself a rapper, when I often heard him as a kind of spoken-word poet.

The lyrics are the only giveaway that this is the work of a band in their late middle age - as Cocker, the poet laureate of suburban misfits, sings movingly about stagnation, divorce and mortality.

The U.S. poet laureate and native Californian’s seventh collection of poetry is rooted in the land, but gives voice to the transcendent.