Interesting - I hardly noticed it! For me, I usually just feel a damning tension in Cole’s albums - his constant straining to make a classic (or even his overt protestations that he’s actually made a classic, as with FHD, an album that’s still only 65% of the way there at best), and it felt refreshing to hear him sounding like he was having some low-stakes fun. His last two in particular were total snooze fests for me.
