I wish we had a [like] button here so I could click it. :pthe_platypus wrote: I realize it'd be pretty condescending of me to say "give it time, it'll come to you", but in your case it may be true. I can't help but feel "North" is exactly the type of album that rewards repeated listening. It might seem morose and deliberately impenetrable at first but, eventually, you just get it, and you find yourself captured by its melodic twists and turns; how it's like listening to a steady heartbeat, how it's heartbreak and ebullience in the same color palette.
This process you described happens a lot to me, specially with EC's albums. Sometimes I listen to a song and I don't give it the proper importance at first but later, in another day or night, in another mood, under different "conditions of temperature and pressure" it just "captures" me.
Also, the greatest thing about Elvis career is that he doesn't get stuck in a label or genre or anything. That's exactly what I love about him. There's Elvis for everyone! lol