Jim (CD)

Recorded in Berlin, Los Angeles and Paris, Jim takes even further what was started with "Multiply", finding the balance between the spontaneous creativity of his raw ideas and the careful craft and polish of a great record.Jim will switch you on in the morning, move you on the dance-floor and take you down in the small hours. It's a bold, promiscuously diverse album, mixing up gospel grooves, sweetly sung and fiercely passionatesoul, delicately moving ballads, thumping early R & B, synthed-up disco,and even a touch of 'hillbilly funk'. "I haven't tried to hide the influences," says Jamie Lidell "This is the music I love." But, listen closely and you can hear Jamie moving in new directions, creating a sound and style that is entirely his own.

• Format: CD
• Genre: Rock