Tarmac Adam completed the new incarnation of the Tarmac Adam rhythm section. Recording was completed in Melbourne, Australia by April, 2012. The album was then mixed in by Rob Feaster at Quad Studios Nashville, and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound in New York. "The History Effect" was released in January 2013, marking the ten-year anniversary of the release of Tarmac Adam’s first album. The endless road vista of the album's cover reflects this ten-year journey, and the name of the band, as O’Donnell explains: "Tarmac Adam is our play on the original name for tarmac. But also that sense of
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