I'm So Confused

steps in to produce a lush-sounding record for , employing quirky keyboards, percussive effects and background vocalists. is one of his typical, naive travelogues: "When I was 19, I went across the pond and I found myself in the demimonde." But his charming nasal voice seems to have all but disappeared; it's been replaced with a sort of arty croon, as on the title cut and the dour Yet it suits the song treatments, which sound similar to mid-period (!). Still, on the "old" makes an appearance with one of his trademark shuffles. ~ Denise Sullivan