Definitely going to be a bit biased by nostalgia on this one from years of listening to the former Stevens/Islam in the backseat as a kid. Funny enough, this wasn’t one of my favourites growing up because I always felt it was a bit dated/dry compared to some of the music my parents would put on but nowadays (especially when trawling through certain sections of this list) good lord is this fresh. Automatically better than 90% of his singer/songwriter contemporaries for making the accompanying instruments to his lyricism not feel like an afterthought. Even if you were to completely forego listening to the lyrics on a lot of these songs they would still just be incredibly pleasing to the ears.