However, with most tracks clocking in around the 4-5 minute mark and some even more, the whole thing is starting to feel like a bit of a slog by this point. a bit of record scratching) with a pretty great baseline to be fair, although the continuing spaceship noises do make you wonder what sort of jungle this might be. 'Nights Out In The Jungle' turns the vibe from disco to hip-hop (i.e. Meanwhile, it's clear that with song titles like 'Superfresh', 'Hot Property' and 'Summer Girl' (basically the same tune as Cosmic Girl from 20 years ago with added clunky lyrics about "legs like liquid honey"), it's not just the music that's rooted in a bygone age - you get the feeling a song called 'My Car Drives Very Fast' was perilously close to making the cut. The distorted robot vocals and sudden tempo changes continue to throw the listener around, even if the likes of Superfresh sound like someone tampering with the playing speed of a Boney M LP. Cloud 9 puts us firmly back in familiar soul boy territory, the band clearly more in their comfort zone and the most obvious 'single' on here (you can see it being a live favourite). Even the closing refrain of "gonna be a freak tonight" is just a whisker away from telling us to "lose ourselves to dance". Opener Shake It On invokes memories of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, the gist being that we're having a Boogie Wonderland on a spaceship. The album starts in a similarly futuristic vein, albeit a late 70s disco version of what the future was supposed to be like. It's actually pretty ace, even excusing the sub-Sugarhill Gang 'rap' towards the end. The video for the title track (and lead-off single) reinforces that the band have climbed aboard the dystopian bandwagon, as well as clearly listening to a lot of Justice and Simian Mobile Disco records.
As the name would suggest, 'the future' looms large in its themes, ironic for a man rooted in 1997 in the nation's cultural subconscious. Jamiroquai's Virtual Insanity has become a video gameįirst things first, as an album Automaton is completely all over the place.
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