Everything on this album is first class. The songs are peerless. The singing is emotional and powerful, but also delicate -- a tremendous range often within the same song. The musical styles vary from a small jazz combo in the title track, to country-flavored songs like No Cure For Love, hard driving pop-rock like First We Take Manhattan, and Joan of Arc, which is difficult to describe -- at first it is a pop ballad with Jennifer Warnes and Leonard Cohen trading poetic verses, but it crescendos to something approaching a choral symphony.