Jamiroquai: Rock Dust Light Star – review

(Mercury)Jay Kay, in a hat resembling a space station, stands on an illuminated dancefloor gurning at the camera. Adoring crowds hem him in. After five years away, Jamiroquai are back, and the cover of this new album is keen to convince prospective listeners that everything is still as one might expect. And so it is: Rock Dust Light Star fillets the heritage of funk and disco in order to serve it to a mainstream audience. There's refocused attention on live instrumentation, and a sound so crisp ...

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