Reviewed by Guy Walsh
Wow, this album starts off with the whopper of the hit single Canned Heat, and an improved extended version as well, very promising. With Deeper Underground as a bonus track as well I thought Jamiroquai had finally turned the corner for good. How wrong can you be? The rest of the album is typical Jamiroquai with the odd good riff thrown in.
The rest of the tracks simply merge into one another and you become oblivious to the fact there's more than one song on the album. Supersonic, the new single, is a prime example. It's the old boring Jamiroquai I thought had long disappeared come back to haunt. Sounding very similar to Black Capricorn Day, a lot of the tracks suffer from this over-similarity. Destitute Illusions is a (boring) instrumental, while Butterfly is again too similar to the two aforementioned tracks.
Planet Home keeps up the space cowboy / space traveller theme that Jay Kay and co. are so insistant upon, while tracks such as King for a Day and Falling barely deserve a mention.
This album is a definate no-no for fans of lively, hard-hitting music such as myself. Sorry Jay Kay, but that's the last time I invest my hard-earned(ahem!) cash in one of your sub-standard efforts.