The madness album was awful - the lyrics were terrible and the music felt like pandering. While You Were Sleeping was actually pretty good overall. The Billie Holiday and Withers tributes were really meh (how do you get to "meh" with such stellar material?) and kind of uninspired imo, especially the latter.

This feels like a bit more of a return to form and he feels very at home on a lot of these tracks. Solid arrangements overall. This will get played for a while.

Although I hate when folks tack on a "2" to something and call it a sequel for no real reason...

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~