Themes of possession are threaded all through the album, which honors the more substantial legacy of Black songs, shelling out homage to genres like funk and soul. In just two hrs, Harris reckons with the legacy of slavery and its lingering outcomes on sexual intercourse and electric power in the existing via the story of 3 interracial partners. The tale Edelman tells is so complicated, persuasive and tragic that 8 hours nearly is not ample.