Jamie Leonhart explores a new paradigm of popular music: a hybrid of pop, jazz, and quirky cabaret. Listeners have described her sound as "sophisticated, deeply soulful and intelligent," "in turns plaintive and irreverent," with "smart world-weariness/wariness." Her original material consists of dreamy, moody, sometimes frustrated but mostly hopeful songs that have vitriol, heart and humor. "The Truth About Suffering" features a choir of brass and woodwinds in arrangements that move from subtle and somber to bold and bombastic.