21st Century Seance - Green Pajamas (The)

Advantages: Aural textures to die for.
Disadvantages: The last track!

...Released soon after "Achtung Baby", this is a difficult album to like at first, but give it a chance to grow on you and you'll be rewarded ten-fold. The opening title track extends and grows (mutates?) into something extraordinary, "Lemon" grinds away insistently, "Babyface" is like some perverted love song, and only the tacky "The Wanderer" spoils things at the end (thank goodness for programmable CD players!) The whole feel of the album is like one gigantic, futuristic advertising jingle - with Bono singing out words and phrases to a background of musical textures created by the Edge. An L.P. for the 21st century.... Read review

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Advantages: Some brillaint easy listening
Disadvantages: A few weak tracks

...I love Jamie Cullums voice and this is a showcase of this voice as was his first album. There are one or two tracks that I personally are not that fond of but that is the only down point of this album the other 13 tracks are superb and as always Jamie throws in a couple of covers including a brilliant version of Catch The Sun. Some of the lyrics I find myself really relating to such as photograph - a brilliant track which is all about memories stirred by photos. The lyrics will really make you smile and remember good times. 21st century kid is a brilliant track too and is a slant on what it means to grow up in the 21st century and has also has a brilliant chorus. A good album and very easy listening but I have to say I prefer twentysomething.... Read review

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Advantages: Great pop songs, summer feel, still Dodgy-esque
Disadvantages: The recycled paper CD case - it won't last much longer

...The demise of Dodgy went with the death of Britpop, when their lead singer and bassist Nigel Clark decided the pop charts and 'hit' singles wasn't 'Good Enough' for three hippies from the midlands. Since 1998 Nige has moved out of London, got married, had children, and finally found the time to build a home studio and do what he does best - write catchy numbers and play good music! And this is just what Dodgy fans have been waiting for - Clark has stuck to the same formula that helped him notch up 8 top 20 singles and a number 1 album in the 90's. Wearing his influences on his sleeve, the Beach Boys twist of single '21st Century Man', the Northern Soul-touched 'Sometimes', the summer folk of Northern Lights'... every song could be a single, every song a sing-along. Possibly released a few months too early, this is a record that sounds... Read review

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