It's obviously the work of an angry, heartbroken perfectionist, one who lost his mother (also manager - dying following ill-advised plastic surgery) and split with his fiancé five months later: a hard time for anyone that no amount of posturing, success or wealth can disguise. And boy does it show this is like meeting a recent divorcee in the car park of a pub at closing time, before he drives home along the pavement. As opposed to the lengthy gestation of previous offering Graduation, 808s and Heartbreak was recorded in a mere three weeks, thereby preventing any tempering of feeling.