I'd tend to agree. If you're looking for old ancient Shadow, aka Endroducing or Preemptive Strike (Private Press isn't old, it's the beginning of the new, sorry), this is not your album. If you're just looking for a musical genius flapping his wings, this is it. It's taking a bit for me, and un/fortunately there are 6 other CDs that have released in the last month that are getting more spins. I was really pleased to see The Outsider on the main "released this week" at Best Buy though.