Album Review: Silver Landings by Mandy Moore

After successfully transitioning out of teen pop stardom into the more refined arena of tasteful adult pop, Mandy Moore's music career was more or less shelved during the 2010s while her acting career took flight. Although she began hinting at a follow-up to 2009's crafty Mike Viola collaboration, Amanda Leigh, as early as 2012 -- stating at the time that it would likely be recorded with then-husband Ryan Adams -- the project languished and eventually fell by the wayside in the latter part of the decade as her role on the hit NBC series This Is Us turned her into a Golden Globe-nominated television star. After an 11-year gap, Moore is back with Silver Landings, an impeccably recorded volume of contemplative pop songs with an inviting West Coast feel that takes cues from Fleetwood Mac's late-'70s heyday.

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At the start of the last decade, Mandy Moore began working on her seventh album with her then-husband Ryan Adams. It never materialized. Moore said that she and Adams wrote songs together that Adams never scheduled the studio time to record. He allegedly prevented her from trying to hire other producers to help complete the album, and would tell her she wasn't a real musician because she couldn't play an instrument.

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It's hard to hear Mandy Moore's soft, sweet-sounding voice and not think about the many roles she's played over her 20-year career. In 1999, a fifteen-year-old Moore released her debut, So Real, and, driven by the smash single "Candy," was seen as the next big pop star. But that didn't work out. A few years later, she was making pre-teens sob in the tragic romantic drama A Walk to Remember and her acting career started to pick up. Over the next two decades, Moore swung between releasing albums — her pop sound becoming less bubblegum and more folky — and starring in various TV shows and movies. Most recently, she has a leading role in This Is Us and makes people ugly-cry weekly..

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