Nothing will prepare you for this!

Review Score: (10/10)
Maybe I've just got an old soul, or something, but I've always preferred the mellower Iggy over the harder stuff-give me "Blah Blah Blah" or "The Idiot" over "American Ceaser" anyday. So I was looking forward to what I had heard was going to be a quieter, more introspective album, but no way did I expect anything like THIS! It's a great record, one to drown your sorrows over the adult beverage of your choice, then smash the glass into the fireplace! Musically (with a only a couple of songs that would be described as harder if it was anyone but Iggy-by his standards, they're ballads), the record as a whole sounds kind of like what it might sound like if Leonard Cohen decided to make a record with America, and had Ken Nording arrange the whole thing. Yet, somehow it works. And it works wonderfully, at that.

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