This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“You know this boogie is for real,” are the first words out of singer Jay Kay’s mouth here, and truer words were never spoken.
With more bounce to the ounce than ever before, Jamiroquai distill every ’70s dance hit into one giant, booty-shaking funkathon on Synkronized. Jay and co. get off on the good foot with Canned Heat, a disco thumper that hoists Stevie Wonder on Walter Rossi strings straight out of Studio 54 and flies him to Boogie Wonderland. And the hits just keep on comin’, from the Earth, Wind & Fire-powered Planet Home to the Family Stone jam Black Capricorn Day, the Barry White boudoir soul of Butterfly and the blaxploitation groove Soul Education. Is any of it original? Hell, no. But it’s a stone gas, baby.
