Now I have nearly heard all of PG's albums, I wonder, in which time, after Genesis, he felt best or most himself?
For me the first (car) is a big exclamation-mark!! Very himself!
The next two seem to me a bit more desperate, though he started with Biko the first humanitarian aspect.
Security has again much energy and the wish to go out. And he went out to african rhythms and continued human right defense with Wallflower.
Then came the very successfull SO, with all in it , also funk-elements.
Then US, after his selfreflexion- and somehow matured, also optical a man, while he sometimes looked a bit 'late pubertär' befor.

I don't know exactly,when Passion and Birdy were composed, but there he was very himself,because he could extent himself total, I believe.
In The Drop he is more at home again.Not always good mood.
And with Scratch my Back he stretched again in a completely new direction and he liked it and was very himself in this age.
???