I've always been curious to check out this CD...Jewel, famous as the Alaskan folk singer, toys with electronica on her 2003 release "0304". I didn't think she could pull it off...and I could not have been more correct. C'mon! Jewel doing dance music is like the Antichrist giving the sermon at mass.
And this isn't even real dance music per se, but just the trendy (at the time) electronica garbage. No wonder many long time Jewel fans were choking on their granola when they put this on. The fact that this CD can be picked up for pennies says a lot.
But not all is a loss. As I expected, she does her standard acoustic-driven pop folk stuff on a few select tracks, and some of this subset rank among the quality of her best B-sides.
Thankfully, she appears to have gotten this jitterbug out of her system and made a fine return to form with the great yet underrated follow up, "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland." Her new CD, "Perfectly Clear" drops in June, but ya'll best be warned: she done gone country.
iPOD-worthy: 5, 7, 8
Jewel on MySpace. Official site.
Video for "Intuition":
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