With When You"re This, This In Love he put all his signature sounds together so if somebody was going to ask what record of his they should listen to then this would be a good start because it has all his styles of song done pretty good on it. He mostly sings folk songs sometimes dressed up as lounge-ballads, rock nocturnes, classical-chansons, time-traveling, lucid, jazzy feeling pop songs too. It might irk the base of your taste or the taste of your base.But it"s not so contrarian as that. His songs are pleas. Laments. There"s an olive branch behind his back. In 2014 Rolling Stone named his album #1 album of the year. This album in feel is similar to that record.