This album manages at once to be grandiose and beautifully small. Bombastic tracks like 'Get Real Get Right' sit alongside understated and melodic tracks like 'Vesuvius' (which presents Stevens's voice against his twitching and restless production.) The best tracks combine these elements - 'Impossible Soul', a glorious 25 minute finale, dips in and out of different modes and is almost operatic in its scope and scale. Ultimately, the album is a little overburdened by ponderous tracks like 'Now That I'm Older' and 'Bad Communication' which certainly slow things down, but the best bits ('Get Real Get Right' and 'I Want To Be Well'), complete with Stevens's characteristic wind-instruments keep up the pace.
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