If you ignore the chorus of “I’ll be around” (feat Timbaland) we could be hearing the 33 version of Lil Ms. Plastic surgery herself’s “The Jump Off”.
Luda perfectly suits the looney tunes beats of “Childz Play”, his voice going up and down all over the track. Coincidentally I had “What’s your fantasy?” on in the car today and although it doesn’t have lyrics of any real greatness, but he has a really ‘entertaining flow’ if you know what I mean.
An oft used comparison but “All Day Love Affair” really does have a real Sly Stone old school charm with those live horns. Reminds me of Tom Waits’ “I can’t get off Work to see my Baby” for some reason, probably because both songs are ####### great. My language is getting atrocious these days BTW.
Where “The Art of Noise” has a real band N.E.R.D. feel (a la “She wants to Move”) and is a bit shite, the other Pharrell track “Let’s Stay Together” (sadly, not a cover) has thick studio Tina Turner soul synths and its artificiality and clomping rhythm actually helps. Smooth as a muhfucka (…sorry).
I’m not really into Cee-Lo, his voices grates like sand in my foreskin, but theres a handful of tunes here for the Summer.







