"On my last record, I was holding onto my art more tightly, I was more precious, and, you know, I lived in a van. This time I decided to kiss the machine a little." And how was it? "It likes to be kissed."

No it doesn't!@#! Taking really dramatic songs like "I Will Not Die," speeding them up, and putting them to machine-generated drums is like taking a really good book, wrapping it in tin foil, and nailing it to the wall. Setting aside the fact that in many instances I prefer an acoustic sound, I really like Jude's stuff better that way because it sounds more like being sung to instead of being sung for. If that makes any sense to anyone but me. I'm sure I'll still listen to this album quite a bit because he has a great voice in any case, but I'm pretty disappointed.