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- Date Released: September 16, 2008
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Pop
- Label: ATO Records
Europop space alien lands on Earth, discovers misery, encourages dancing
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Welsh songstress Jem opens her sophomore album in Europop space-alien mode, landing her feather-light breaths amid the title cut's wind sounds and middle-Eastern flamenco lilts; she's been sent on an observational mission, she tells us, only to discover misery. So she spends much of the rest of the album offering assurance and affirmation — "Keep On Walking" and "You Will Make It," two songs are called. She's still determined, though, to explore both the richness of life on our planet and rhythms to match: wine-bar salsa as she bilingually lusts to be touched in "I Want You Too…"; an ‘80s Anglo-pop version of '70s jazz-funk as she kicks out some narcissistic loser in "Crazy"; new wave rapping recalling the Tom Tom Club or Madonna's early "Sidewalk Talk" as she boots the street-fair into full gear in the album's best, and least explicitly introspective, song "Aciid!"
More Feist-y than feisty, Jem's detached, airy tones split the difference between singer-songwriter folk and trip-hop in way that manages to pull in everything from Japanese pop to gospel choruses. There's a recurring spiritual bent, the mood often tends toward Mary Poppins polite — "shame, shame, shame on you and your profanity," one line goes — and the final few songs feel downright relaxed. It's an undeniably upscale sort of music that TV licensing agencies find especially attractive. But its energy can take you by surprise. -
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| 01. |  |
Down To Earth |
4:33 |  |
| 02. | |
Crazy |
3:39 | |
| 03. | |
I Want You To... |
3:38 | |
| 04. | |
It's Amazing |
3:58 | |
| 05. | |
Keep On Walking |
4:12 | |
| 06. | |
You Will Make It |
6:11 | |
| 07. | |
I Always Knew |
3:09 | |
| 08. | |
Got It Good |
4:26 | |
| 09. | |
Aciiid! |
2:56 | |
| 10. | |
How Would You Like It |
4:02 | |
| 11. | |
And So I Pray |
2:42 | |
| 12. | |
On Top Of The World |
4:52 | |
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Credits
- Ken Robinson - Trumpet // Jeff Bass - Bass // Jeff Bass - Guitar // Jeff Bass - Keyboards // Jeff Bass - Producer // Jeff Bass - Drum Programming // Jeff Bass - Tracked By // Ted Jensen - Mastering // Lester Mendez - Piano // Lester Mendez - Producer // Lester Mendez - String Arrangements // Lester Mendez - Brass Arrangement // Lester Mendez - Instrumentation // Eddie Miller - Vocal Engineer // Rafael Padilla - Percussion // Tim Roberts - Mixing Assistant // Serban Ghenea - Mixing // Mick Bolger - Trombone // Mick Bolger - Trumpet // Mick Bolger - Euphonium // Mick Bolger - Mellophonium // Mick Bolger - E Flat Cornet // Johnny Evans - Saxophone // Jeff Atmajian - Piano // Jeff Atmajian - String Arrangements // Jeff Atmajian - Piano Arrangement // Sonus - Strings // Mike Bradford - Producer // Mike Bradford - String Arrangements // Mike Bradford - Instrumentation // Kevin Beber - Drum Programming // Del Casher - Sounds // Bryan Cook - Engineer // John Hanes - Mixing // Joe Wohlmuth - Engineer // David Levita - Guitar (Acoustic) // David Levita - Guitar // Jem Griffiths - Vocals // Jem Griffiths - Producer // Jem Griffiths - Vocal Engineer // Jem Griffiths - Poetry Reading // Nabil Elderkin - Photography // Brian Berryman - Engineer // Brian Berryman - Fader Engineer // Phillip Ramos - Studio Assistant // Mark Aaron James - Design // Hiroko Aoyagi - Vocals // Nick Cuchinella - Trombone // Justin Griffiths - Guitar (Acoustic) // Shinobu Lee - Vocals // Monica Mendez - Sound Design // Milan, Derrick & The Krew - Choir, Chorus // Carmen Puig - Performer // Welsh Choir Of Southern California - Choir, Chorus
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