''The Gospel According to Water'' is the fifteenth

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by American musician and producer Joe Henry. It was released in November 15, 2019 under EarMusic Records.

Critical reception

''The Gospel According to Water'' was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 85, based on 6 reviews In a year-end essay for ''

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'', Ann Powers cited ''The Gospel According to Water'' as one of her favorite albums from 2019 and proof that the format is not dead but rather undergoing a "metamorphosis". She added that

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s had reemerged through the culturally-relevant autobiographical narratives of artists such as Henry, who, "faced with a daunting cancer diagnosis ... wrote a whole new hymnal, in the form of a song journal written at 4 a.m."

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