Little Earthquakes is a masterpiece in such a different vein, I guess it was hard for people not to listen to everything she did afterwards with that in their ears? But tbh I don’t like the way that album is produced. Amazing songs. But production? They took her raw, singular voice and put it in a very conventional box.
When she started self-producing, her sound got a •lot• weirder, in all the best ways. Those first two albums, I love the songs. But it’s the later ones where I love the sounds.