SINGLE REVIEW: Jamie Lidell
- Posted on July 4, 2008 3:23 PM
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Jamie Lidell
Another Day
Review by Andy Hirst
Continuing Warp Records recent trend of moving towards more eclectic and less electric musical genres ‘Another Day’ is released on 16th June. The Artist himself could also be equally accused of making a similar movement to that of his label as he journeys away from his edgy and electronically fueled background, with this latest offering baring a more striking resemblance to 60s Motown than it does to many of his more traditionally Warp-like label mates.
A record label should not define an artist and nor should an artists earlier work define all critique of their future releases and with that in mind, as an upbeat, feel-good summer single, Jamie Lidell has created a record that would sit very comfortably besides a great many soul singers from throughout the decades.
Vocally his talents are hard to dispute; his delivery is flawless and the musical accompaniment has that infallible ability to get you bopping from side to side whether you intend to or not. The sounds of birdsong that twitters in the background and is punctuated with gospel hand claps is as joyful and summery a sound as you will be likely to encounter, all the same is something missing from the picture. Perhaps it is the fact that we find our selves in 2008 and yet there is nothing there to modernize a great but unchanged musical style to give it some kind of contemporary grounding that leaves the track grasping just short of the mark, or maybe the for a record that musically sounds very much like a soul, there is a remarkable absence of passion or emotion. The vocal delivery is almost too perfect and creates the impression a little too convincingly of a very well executed technical exercise in reproducing the sounds of Motown without fulfilling the indefinable key requirements
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