It's a sad fact of life that people rarely keep their promises.

Let's say, for example, someone says, 'Of course I'd really like to go to grad with you -- I'll meet you there. I promise.' So then, hypothetically, you spend a lot of money renting a tux and buying a corsage, and your parents drive you there and you show up and she's already there with another guy, and when you walk in she and her friends laugh at you and then the guy she's with squirts water on the front of your pants when you're in the bathroom, and so you spend the rest of the night locked in a stall curled up in the fetal position until the janitor tells you at sometime around four in the morning that you have to leave, and so you walk home only to find that your parents have locked the door, spend the rest of the night cold and hungry sleeping in the bushes outside ...

My point? Oh, right.

My point is that people rarely keep their promises.

So when the U.K.'s Jay Kay and his '70s-obsessed project Jamiroquai boast that they'll take you on A Funk Odyssey with their latest release, you'd be excused for taking it with a grain of salt.

But -- and here's the problem, here's what keeps you showing up with a $28 corsage even though you should know better -- in this case they deliver.

Can you believe that?

The Stevie Wonderful Kay and co. actually do take us on A Funk Odyssey. And a fabulously groovy, non-stop boogie, superfly, discofied, funktified, Daft Punktified one at that.

A real, honest to goodness Funk Odyssey.

Exactly what they promised. (More on: Jamiroquai).

Track Listing 1. Feel So good
  2. Little L
  3. You Give Me Something
  4. Corner Of The Earth
  5. Love Foolosophy
  6. Stop Don't Panic
  7. Black Crow
  8. Main Vein
  9. Twenty Zero One
  10. Picture of My Life
  11. So Good To Feel Real