{"id":41335,"date":"2009-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-return-of-the-space-cowboy\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T00:00:00","slug":"the-return-of-the-space-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-return-of-the-space-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return Of The Space Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first time I heard Jamiroquai, I had yet to get used to their jazzy sound.\u00a0 But after only a few weeks of occasionally playing a song, I got hooked. Nowadays, the group is incredibly successful with their unusual mix of jazz, funk and electronic pop. Their energetic and rather enigmatic frontman Jay Kay is an amazing performer and gets almost everyone to dance.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Jamiroquai\u2019s critically acclaimed debut album, Emergency On Planet Earth,<\/i> hit the shelves with a big bang. After releasing their first single \u201cWhen You Gonna Learn?\u201d on the Acid Jazz label in 1992, they signed an eight-album record deal with the big Sony BMG. The Return Of The Space Cowboy<\/i> marks Jamiroquai\u2019s second album.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

When Jamiroquai recorded The Return of the Space Cowboy,<\/i> Jay Kay was still accompanied by Stuart Zender, whom some call one of the greatest studio bassists of all time (and I happen to agree). Zender joined Jamiroquai when he was only eighteen years old, and he was their original bass player, playing with the group until 1998. Jamiroquai has yet to find a bass player as gifted as Zender.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The album starts off with the song \u201cJust Another Story,\u201d which somehow reminds me of Herbie Hancock\u2019s \u201cChameleon.\u201d This illusion is shattered when Jay starts to sing, though. The second song, called \u201cStillness In Time,\u201d is a bossa-style tune and doubtlessly one of the best songs on the disc. The diversity of styles here clearly shows Jamiroquai\u2019s approach to music. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

Another amazing song is \u201cSpace Cowboy,\u201d which features a mellow mix of jazzy bass and a whole lot of dreamy effects. Both \u201cSpace Cowboy\u201d and \u201cMr. Moon\u201d have amazing basslines that carry the songs to incredibly high levels. A few songs, however, aren\u2019t that stunning. \u201cLight Years,\u201d for example, is a mediocre and boring song. It has some interesting bridges, but falls back into the same dull pattern all the time. The track \u201cJourney To Arnhemland\u201d features a didgeridoo and some other interesting instruments, while \u201cThe Kids\u201d is funky and up-tempo and sounds rather distorted.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Anyone familiar with Jamiroquai will definitely love this album, though people who haven\u2019t heard of Jamiroquai before will need some time to get used to it. But after a while, you will really, really start to like it. Banging basslines, slick vocals, muted trumpets, Latin guitar and the occasional piercing guitar solo — this album has it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":29731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8338],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-41335","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jamiroquai","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41335"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41335"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}