Some reviewer or other was bitching yesterday about how it wasn't another Voodoo, but I'm like we don't need another Voodoo. Music shouldn't be made just for nostalgia's sake, and besides, any attempt to recreate that album will fail.

Going in a new direction where his sound is concerned, expanding while remaining very much himself...that's the way forward, and that's what he's done.


Regarding the vocals...if they had been brought up a good 3dB almost throughout, they'd be a lot more intelligible while still keeping the feel of being pressed deep into the mix. That's even if they were sung exactly the same way. And I have a couple of other issues with the mixing, but suspect that instrumentalists were guiding the decisions there. And anyway, the lows-heavy sound gives it a live band sort of feel, which ain't a bad thing.