As in other albums, the listener is promoted to voyeur of miserablism: each track has a feel of a torn out diary entry, left to wilt on adeserted marital bed for our perusal.
The television documentary in which Bell is a central figure, Dying to Tell the Story, started as a diary entry by Amy Eldon, the sister of Dan Eldon, a photo journalist who was killed in Somalia in 1993 when he was just 22.