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Jam Releases His Highly Anticipated New Album, ‘Best Before My Time’

“Best Before My Time” is the brain-child album of Jam aka MusicBy­Jam where he unleashes a mix of funk, rap­ping, bossa-nova, soul and grime. And I got the chance to lis­ten to it.

I can’t believe how good this guy is! Where’s He Been? Jam’s refresh­ing album got me out of my blog­ging hibernation!

@MusicByJam — Let’s Fly [Offi­cial Video] from Jam on Vimeo.

My favourite song of the album is Let’s Fly (above), which starts with vio­lins, then organs and synths before an infec­tious drum beat hits. My sec­ond favourite is Round And Round, maybe because it has that funky Cal­i­forn­ian bass-line.

He def­i­nitely keeps the old-school-nu-school hybrid going with num­bers like Noth­ing Like You which reminds me of Dam-Funk a lit­tle bit, and I Digress is def­i­nitely a sum­mer car-top-down catchy tune with seri­ous lyrics under­neath as he talks about AIDs, sin­gle mums, under-aged sex, NATO, and what being a real stu­dent of life is about. Hope­fully there’s enough sun left in 2011 to enjoy the song.

I don’t think he can con­tain the effort­less bossa-nova in “Best Before My Time” with songs like Boas Ferias and Num­ber One Girl. And then there’s Excuse Me, fea­tur­ing trum­pets and a live-retro drum beat. What more could you want from a young Londoner!

Enough of me talking.…here’s another video!

Visit MusicBy­Jam Online Here: www.musicbyjam.com. His album is out today!

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