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JamiroFan2000
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 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 17:41 |
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AllMusicGuide rates "Dynamite" 4 Stars!!
 Hello,
 After that rather unsettling first U.S. review of Dynamite I read that JGrizz found, I was hoping someone would like it, and I found some did . The ever resourceful AllMusicGuide website (LINK: http://www.allmusic.com ) just updated their new album ratings and Dynamite was scored a 4 stars out of 5 stars rating (Rating Link: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=JAMIROQUAI&uid=CAW040509171329&sql=11:gsngtq7zbu48~T2 ). But the text review of Dynamite has not been posted on the site yet, but I expect it will be posted in the coming days. Also, they have just added Videos to all artist listings, you can watch the following Jami videos: Virtual Insanity, Canned Heat, You Give Me Something, Feels Just Like It Should & Little L (LINK: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=JAMIROQUAI&uid=CAW040509171329&sql=11:3gx7gjwr86i9~T0 ). I'll post again once I come across the text review of Dynamite, thanks for listening and Peace!
Sincerely,
JamiroFan2000
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JamiroFan2000
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 Hello again,
 As I mentioned before, I have just seen the new AllMusicGuide text review of Jam's Dynamite, here's a Cut N Paste of it & a link to the review itself, and so far, a great review :
*ALLMUSICGUIDE REVIEW OF DYNAMITE by Matt Collar*
Not unlike one of its lead singer Jay Kay's much publicized Lamborghini's, the UK funk band Jamiroquai is primarily a vehicle for its front-man'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 dance floor 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 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 us all to make our dreams come true over a bed of pulsating disco beats. The Jamiroquai faithful would accept nothing less.
REVIEW LINK  http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:20d7gjlr56ia
There you go, great review innit? I expect we will see the major American Magazines review Dynamite in the next 1-2 weeks, most notably Rolling Stone since they NEVER reviewed "A Funk Odyssey"! Thanks for listening, enjoy the review and Peace!
Sincerely,
JamiroFan2000
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