Ship to Shore

Ship to Shore is a 2024 studio album by British folk rock musician Richard Thompson, released on New West Records. It has received positive reviews from critics. The album was launched with a band tour featuring Taras Prodaniuk on bass, Thompson's grandson Zak Hobbs on guitar and mandolin, Zara Phillips on vocals and acoustic guitar and Dave Mattacks on drums. The album's title comes from ship-to-shore radio that Thompson listened to as a boy. According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Ship to Shore received "universal acclaim" based on a weighted average score of 86 out of 100 from 6 critic scores. Critical consensus is that this is one of the strongest albums in Thompson's career.