reached his creative peak with the brilliant , the most inventive and assured album of his career. So silky and fluid as to sound almost effortless, 's vocals revel in the lush strings and evocative horns of 's superbly intimate production, barely rising above an angelic whisper for the gossamer With barely perceptible changes in mood, covers remarkable ground, spanning from -- a call to arms delivered with characteristic understatement -- to renditions of ' and 's both of them exemplary of Equally compelling are the album's three Top Ten hits -- and the shimmering title cut. A classic. ~ Jason Ankeny