- acid jazz, electronic, free funk
- 126 min
- 21 tracks
- Sony Music Entertainment UK
The Return of the Space Cowboy is the second studio album by English funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai. The album was released on 17 October 1994 under Sony Soho Square. The album continues the musical direction of their debut, Emergency on Planet Earth (1993), and is characterised by its complex songwriting as a result of Jay Kay's creative block mid-production.
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Character
Warm, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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- AllMusic4.5/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Q3/5 ★
- The Rolling Stone Album Guide2/5 ★
- Uncut7/10
- Entertainment WeeklyB+
- The Guardian3/4 ★
- NME6/10
- Orlando Sentinel3/5 ★
- Record Mirror4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Select4/5
- Smash Hits4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Just Another Story8:49
- 2Stillness In Time4:17
- 3Half The Man4:50
- 4Light Years5:54
- 5Manifest Destiny6:22
- 6The Kids5:10
- 7Mr Moon5:29
- 8Scam7:02
- 9Journey To Arnhemland5:23
- 10Morning Glory6:24
- 11Space Cowboy6:27
- 1Light Years (4 To Da Floor Mix)5:22
- 2Space Cowboy (David Morales Mix)7:51
- 3Space Cowboy (Demo Version)4:18
- 4Morning Glory (Instrumental)6:22
- 5Stillness In Time (Edit)4:16
- 6Space Clav4:55
- 7Light Years (Live at the Theatre Du Moulin)5:57
- 8Scam (Live)5:13
- 9Journey To Arnhemland (Live)5:27
- 10We Gettin' Down (Live)9:46
21 tracks, 126 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Jamiroquai
- Label
- Sony Music Entertainment UK
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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