Such is the regularity with which Joel releases these magisterial wonders it’s easy to take the chap for granted. We just expect it to be good, when really we should experience a hesitant sense of nerves: has he done it again, is it as intriguing, for example, as last year’s “Grey Poison”? It is, of course, as he’s on a stately roll, but it’s different.
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