Cruel Sun has to be one of my favorite CDs in my entire collection, and deffinately one of Rusted Roots' best CDs (Next to When I Woke).I enjoy Rusted Root CDs because they are very real. They aren't beefed up with a bunch of high tech editing (Just listen to track 5). I've been to a Rusted Root Concert (Rock!), and other than a thousand screaming fans a very potent concert atmosphere, the songs sound just as pure on the CDs as they do in concert.