JAMIE T and The Pacemakers (UK)
As formulas for beating Second Album Syndrome go, the Jamie T solution could catch on. His second album, Kings & Queens, sounds like the work of a veteran who would much rather look at the world outside than fret about his career. It’s an album pulsing with the energy and vibrancy of youth. Kings & Queens is exactly the album that Jamie T’s admirers hoped he would make, full of the gutter poetry, anger and humour of first album Panic Prevention. But it’s tougher, more focused, more confident, and with even better tunes. Jamie is happy with his work, and typically defiant and self-deprecating in his ambitions for it. “If this album could achieve any one thing, it would be that it forces people to fuck off and let me get on with what I do. And for people to accept that I'm not going to do the same thing over and over again.”
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