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Mutable Set

2020 studio album by Blake Mills

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ97355340 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mutable Set is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Blake Mills. It was released on May 8, 2020 under Verve Records and New Deal Records.

Critical reception

Mutable Set was met with universal acclaim 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 84, based on 7 reviews.

Editorial summary

“Mutable Set” enters the record as 2020 studio album by Blake Mills. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mutable, studio and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mutable, studio and album.
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“Mutable Set” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mutable, studio and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q97355340. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mutable Set” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.