Grant Gillingham

Review: "Automaton" by Jamiroquai

It has been seven years since Jamiroquai released an album, and no doubt they were looking to improve on the fairly mediocre reviews for that last one: Rock Dust Light Star. In the years that've elapsed since, the world has changed quite a lot. Automation has been increasing and unemployment rates have soared due to companies relying on machinery instead of manpower. Naturally, Automaton focuses on this threat and at the same time presents a soundtrack to a dystopian world, integrated with robotic life that we could come to see in the near future. Does this album prove to be a psychic prediction of the future, or as misguided as Back to the Future’s expectations of 2015?