Tarmac Group face the recession of the early 1990s. In particular, the housing division continued to invest heavily in land even though the market had peaked, leading to provisions of £132m in that division alone. Like his predecessor before him, Pountain was forced to step down as chief executive to be replaced by Neville Simms, previously in charge of construction. Inevitably, the emphasis moved away from housing in favour of construction. In October 1992, Tarmac acquired the privatised government agency PSA Projects to complement Tarmac Construction. This was initially called TBV Consult (reflecting a short lived partnership between Tarmac and Black &
This Is What the Truth Feels Like It was the venue for her first live performance with her band No Doubt opening for Ziggy Marley in 1990. "This Is What the Truth Feels Like" received generally favorable reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 62, based on 16 reviews. Leah Greenblatt of "Entertainment Weekly" stated that Stefani's material "feels truer—and sounds stronger—than it has in years". Mikael Wood of the "Los Angeles Times" was very positive in his review, highlighting that "[h]er singing—and, more important, what her