Reviews
"...He still has it. He writes, plays, sings with unmatched elegance, intelligence, a decent heart and mostly sounds like the teenaged kid everyone middle-aged knows they have inside them still.", "...No one weds conversational and cosmological - or acoustic pop and ethnological studies - quite so gracefully..." - Rating: A-, 4 stars out of 5 - "...This is an album of the finest, most beguiling cut. Rhythms skip and play seemingly without touching earth....These are manifestly the labors of a man still with something to say. And...saying it beautifully.", "...His best solo effort since 1986's GRACELAND, following a pure pop ethos that is refreshingly, and sometimes, painfully honest...", Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000"., Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000"., 4 stars out of 5 - "...The melodies are lucid, simple in the best sense of the term. The album's overall impression is of quietness and introspection....providing the map of the shifting geographies of our emotional lives..."
