Jamiroquai
Dynamite
2005
Review
by Matt Collar
Not unlike one of its lead singer Jay Kay's much publicized Lamborghinis, the U.K. funk band Jamiroquai is primarily a vehicle for its frontman's various fetishes. Which is another way of saying that Kay loves disco and fancy retro sneakers and he wears both well. He has done so ever since he hippie-danced his way out of the acid jazz ghetto of the early '90s with Jamiroquai's revelatory debut album, Emergency on Planet Earth. That album featured Kay's bright and soulful vocals against '70s-style funk and drew obvious comparisons to Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, and sundry other icons of vintage R&B. Not too much has changed in the years since and 2005's Dynamite finds Kay and Co. delving once again into various '70s- and '80s-inspired dance sounds. Similar to 2001's dazzlingly slick Funk Odyssey, Dynamite reveals Kay as a dancefloor eclectic, inclined to grab as much from Chic and Parliament as Kajagoogoo, the Police, and Terry Callier. Keeping to this grab bag aesthetic, Kay makes the most of his experimentation with some "vocal bass synthetics" on the hard funk title track. Also engaging is the melancholy soul-folk of "Seven Days in Sunny June" and the similarly quiet storm-ready ballad "Talullah." On the funky side of things, "Starchild" finds Kay proclaiming the coming of a disco superman while "Time Won't Wait" is an infectious Off the Wall-era Michael Jackson boogie fest with Kay urging people to make their dreams come true over a bed of pulsating disco beats. The Jamiroquai faithful would accept nothing less.
1 Feels Just Like It Should
2 Dynamite
3 Seven Days in Sunny June
4 Electric Mistress
5 Starchild
6 Loveblind
7 Talullah
8 (Don't) Give Hate a Chance
9 World That He Wants
10 Black Devil Car
11 Hot Tequila Brown
12 Time Won't Wait
4 comments:
What The hell is this?
Expand your horizons. Man doen not live by surf alone.
Listen to the second sone. Recognize it??
It's the big dance number music from Napolean Dynamite. A kicker of a tune!
T
Hi Trustar,
you are so right. Jamiroquai rocks. Just take a look over the fence, there is a lot of goog music in this world.
btw
Jay Kay is a big Mountainbike fan too. Once he was in Concert in my town. I sold him a bike... I will never forget. First day I work, I have sold our best bike (Cannondale Raven) to Jay Kay. hehe I was the hero of the day in the shop! He is a very nice guy, we talked a lot, because I did not know who he is. When he paid, he invited me to come to the concert in the backstage area. After that I know who he is...
Hey butch
Thanks for the great story! It's always very cool too hear about brushes with celebrity. Proves they are real people after all. A mountain biker! Who would have thunk it.
And to get a backstage pass? priceless!
T
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