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and 6 days before my birthday!!!
Oh yeah!!!!
They better be good. 
Jamiroquai's new album to be released this year
25 million albums sold. Over 20 hit singles. A career which has spanned an era defying 18 years. And now Jay Kay and his band are back to reclaim their crown as one of the UK’s premiere musical exports with the sublime Rock Dust Light Star, their seventh studio album, the first in five years and their debut for Universal Music Group. The album will be released on 29 October 2010.
At a time when many acts are producing electronic, disco influenced tracks, with Rock Dust Light Star, Jamiroquai has moved on from the sound they helped popularise and reverted to a more organic, live sound. The shift is one that has revitalized the band, and produced their most engaging, vital album in years. In singer Jay Kay’s words “Everything on the record is live. It’s a real band record. The last, album – fantastic – but the whole thing became a little sterile. This time we’ve captured the flow of our live performances.” The album was recorded mainly at Jay’s home studio in Buckinghamshire and also at legendary Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire. The album is entirely written by Kay and his Jamiroquai band mates and produced by Kay alongside first time collaborators Charlie Russell and Brad Spence.
The first taste of the album will be the rattling groove of White Knuckle Ride, it’s a hi-octane retrospective on Jay’s career experiences - a cautionary tale equally applicable to anyone’s life in these pressure cooker times. Remixes of White Knuckle Ride by Seamus Haji, Monarchy and Penguin Prison will be serviced to clubs in late August.
Now at the start of a new chapter, Jamiroquai is a band on fire (as witnessed by anyone who’s seen their European shows this summer), led by one of the most charismatic front-men ever, with a shelf full of awards, including five MTV gongs, an Ivor Novello and a Grammy to name but a few. ‘I do feel rejuvenated, music-wise and business-wise’ Jay says. He was ‘physically knackered’ after completing his previous seven album record deal, but now ‘everything has clicked and I feel privileged to still be in the game.” In the game and on top of it. Jamiroquai is back.
At a time when many acts are producing electronic, disco influenced tracks, with Rock Dust Light Star, Jamiroquai has moved on from the sound they helped popularise and reverted to a more organic, live sound. The shift is one that has revitalized the band, and produced their most engaging, vital album in years. In singer Jay Kay’s words “Everything on the record is live. It’s a real band record. The last, album – fantastic – but the whole thing became a little sterile. This time we’ve captured the flow of our live performances.” The album was recorded mainly at Jay’s home studio in Buckinghamshire and also at legendary Hook End Manor in Oxfordshire. The album is entirely written by Kay and his Jamiroquai band mates and produced by Kay alongside first time collaborators Charlie Russell and Brad Spence.
The first taste of the album will be the rattling groove of White Knuckle Ride, it’s a hi-octane retrospective on Jay’s career experiences - a cautionary tale equally applicable to anyone’s life in these pressure cooker times. Remixes of White Knuckle Ride by Seamus Haji, Monarchy and Penguin Prison will be serviced to clubs in late August.
Now at the start of a new chapter, Jamiroquai is a band on fire (as witnessed by anyone who’s seen their European shows this summer), led by one of the most charismatic front-men ever, with a shelf full of awards, including five MTV gongs, an Ivor Novello and a Grammy to name but a few. ‘I do feel rejuvenated, music-wise and business-wise’ Jay says. He was ‘physically knackered’ after completing his previous seven album record deal, but now ‘everything has clicked and I feel privileged to still be in the game.” In the game and on top of it. Jamiroquai is back.
