 However, to her surprise, many of her peers and the media compared her new sound to the burgeoning new wave movement.The album received her strongest reviews in years, but her sales did not improve and this had a severe impact on her relationship with Warner Brothers.In 1983, as Raitt was finishing work on her follow-up album, entitled "Tongue and Groove", Warner Brothers "cleaned house", dropping a number of major artists such as Van Morrison and Arlo Guthrie from their roster.