It’s been seven years since the last Jamiroquai album, yet somehow it feels like even longer. They certainly ended things on a high note, 2010’s Rock Dust Light Star was one of their strongest efforts, so it would have been odd if they’d just faded into the background thereafter.
In fact, after a couple of years touring and generally milling about, they set to work on a new LP all the way back in 2013, and now we’ve had our first taste in the form of a 20-second preview. It would seem that the reason they’ve been away for so long is that, at some point around 2013 they constructed a (presumably very shiny) time machine and blasted into the future in search of The New Sound.
The future they found seems to be the same one everyone was trying to imagine circa 1981, as the preview is a bleeping, blooping miasma of synths and neon lights, which features Jay Kay replacing his old, mirrored hat with a new luminous one.
Alongside this intriguing little preview, the band have announced 10 festival dates across Europe and South Korea, and the name of the new album –Â Automaton. Given that the preview is called ‘Automaton Transmission 001’, it’s likely that we’ll see more of these previews cropping up in the coming weeks, and the May start for the tour somewhat suggests that the album will be coming out in the new few months.
Jamiroquai are back in the game, take a minute to really think about that.
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