Year Released: 2007 Label: Mercury Year Bought: 2010 If any of you remember Just Jack, it's probably for his 2007 hit 'Starz In Their Eyes', which hit number 2 in the charts. A song about the dark side of tv talent shows. Very 00s. Indeed, that would probably be where my knowledge of him would have ended had he not played my university's summer party that year. Backed by a full live band, Jack (full name Jack Allsop) delivered a great set of house-inflected tunes which supported his Streets-esque musings on life, the universe and everything. Clearly desperately seeking my approval, he popped up again a few weeks later at a free gig in Nottingham city centre, and again I found myself dancing along. I downloaded some random songs by him at the time, but didn't get this album – his second release – until about 2010. It's a mixed bag, but when it works, it really does take off. The album feels like it's divided into two main themes – optimism and paranoia. Open...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)