Why was this released in the spring? It is a summer album.
Although, with the recent weather we’ve been having in England, they could be forgiven for being mistaken. This album is the perfect accompaniment for sitting in the garden and drinking Pimms, cool Jazz and cool Funk join forces and float whimsically over the heads of all listening and reduce the day to a minimalist bliss. It just drifts in and carries you away.
There’s something good about music, TV and films that are completely inoffensive but still manage to be good. This album gently persuades you to enjoy it, even if you didn’t really want to, but isn’t big headed about it.
So pour a cool one, light a spliff and chillax to the sound of politeness.
Listen to this album: All summer long
Rating: 78%
Extracts from ‘I come alive’, ‘I remember a time’, ‘Never look back’ and ‘When words are just word’
Looks a bit like Elton John on the cover of the album.
The music is like the recession of disco. This is the sort of album I expect to find for £2 in Cash Converters, from a short lived funk band from the 80s that my parents would go “Why did you buy this? I remember them!”
While it is something that I might enjoy if it was being played and I couldn’t turn it off, it’s not something I’m going to look out and make an effort to put it on.
The doubleclap is overused in the album as are many of the other devices and by the fourth track, I’m beginning to tire of the repetitive rhythms and dreary electropop sounds.
The lyrics are nothing special and the singing is monotonous and drab. The perhaps once colourful style is now faded and has a few holed in it.
Listen to this album: On the swings at the local park.
Rating: 62%
Extracts from ‘Too Many Questions’, ‘Waiting for time’, ‘Cottonmouth’ and ‘Cut me loose’
