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JAMELIA - Walk With Me
| Times Online |
| Notionally competing with America’s R&B superstars, the third album from Birmingham’s most glamorous could not be more British — Window Shopping even samples the sitcom Are You Being Served? Do Me Right and Beware of the Dog, a glam-rock stomp built around Depeche Mode’s silly Personal Jesus, are quite excellent. Most idiosyncratic is No More, which recasts the Stranglers’ druggy Golden Brown as oddly dignified gospel....full text |
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| Guardian |
| There's no disputing Jamelia Davis's ability to turn out a fantastic single: her last album contained three of the best of that year in Superstar, See it in a Boy's Eyes and Thank You. The new single, Something About You, doesn't quite match up (the call-and-response refrain is disconcertingly similar to Natasha Bedingfield's Single), but its snappy R&B rhythm and rock guitars exemplify the rest of the album's boundary-crossing freshness. In a set full of glittering, A-list moments, two of the best are No More, which samples the Stranglers' Golden Brown, and Beware of the Dog, whose compelling electronic thrust comes courtesy of a chunk of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus....full text |
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| MusicOMH.com |
| British RnB seems to be in a pretty dire state at the moment. Ms Dynamite has gone from Mercury Prize to a mere memory, Alesha Dixon's solo single has failed to catch fire the way her former band Mis-teeq did, and starlets such as Keisha White and Terri Walker have performed solidly if unspectacularly....full text |
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