I really love the place this album holds in RDJ's discography. It's distinct from the 3 prior albums in that it lacks the cavernous reverb and echo that made those albums feel like you're existing in this crazy world of sound.
Instead, you have a very clean, cold, sterile sound, with an eerie balance between the warm and the unsettling. You can tell it's the first digital album he recorded, and he uses that to the album's advantage through its immediacy and by giving it a real warmth with all the strings (whilst almost being too cleanly produced).
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