Sean Rowe, who The Wall Street Journal wrote,recalls the ecstatic intensity of late-'60s Van Morrison and stark subtlety of late-era Johnny Cash, has created a beautifully primal work. Madman is deliberately simple in both arrangement and composition. It is soul music in the purest and most literal sense, hypnotic rhythms, warmly distorted guitars and Rowe's incredible voice recalling a time, real or imagined, when music and people seemed distinctly more connected.