it took me quite a few spins to get into ovo. i was expecting it to be more like his previous soundtrack work, which i held in higher regard than his pop records (post so) and was initially turned off by it's sort of mildly bourgeois presentation. but, i guess the project it was for is conceptually different than a film score and required something a little closer to a pop record. now, looking over his discography, it stands out fairly uniquely as somewhere in between his pop records and his film work and that arguably gets to both points better than either of those strains of his work ever did. that happens, sometimes, with artists that work in parallel in multiple genres.
the lamb is the best concept record that the rock era produced, and passion really remains the best film score of all time. but i think, in the end, that this is his real opus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IhJCD0qJR4
