A Funk Odyssey
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A Funk Odyssey
A Funk Odyssey is the fifth studio album by British funk band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 3 September 2001 in the United Kingdom by Sony Soho Square and 11 September 2001 by Epic Records in the United States. - Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
With his fifth album, A Funk Odyssey, Jay Kay and his minions (old and new) faithfully recreate ‘70s disco-funk as if it were cool.
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All Music
A Funk Odyssey sparks classic enthusiasm, and it feels good.
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Consequence of Sound
Yes, it's an unabashed party album, with no aim of informing, let alone empowering the listener; yes, it's a far, far cry from the days when they railed against the world's injustices. But that doesn't mean it isn't, you know, good.
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The Tech
No one should purchase this album, unless they are just trying to waste their money on a pointless album.
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Yam Magazine
A Funk Odyssey proved not only to be the band’s most personal album, but one that brought frontman and founder Jay Kay from the brink of crippling depression and self-destruction. Rating: 4/5
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Hip Online
Jay Kay, better known as the frontman for Jamiroquai, is back with his huge voice and disco beats. The last album, Synkronized, did noting to further the group’s success that Traveling Without Moving and its hit single, “Virtual Insanity”, gave them.
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Lets Face the Music
“A Funk Odyssey” is far from perfect but is an album which I believe shapes the next two Jamiroquai albums as Jay Kay has found a sound he wishes to go forward with.
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PopMatters
Jamiroquai's fifth album, 2001: A Funk Odyssey, is an intergalactic break dance across a lighted disco floor.
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NME
Where didyou get that hat? And that bad eclectic funk?
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Western Telegraph
By the end of the album there are some violin-type grooves, a lot more sunshine, and a nasal lilt in JKs voice that chills.
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EW
By replacing funk’s earthy grit with pixie dust, Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay makes pleasing retro-flavored dance music with gleaming surfaces and no inner life whatsoever.
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News Hopper
Overall, there's nothing really exciting about this just simply standard Jamiroquai music.
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