Not another Jam album? Well, not actually. There´s never been just another Jam album ...

This album takes the band forward ... SOUND AFFECTS isn´t a perfect Jam album, even if it is a great one ...

It´s a brave departure and an earnest effort to break new ground ... That dense heavy sound which found its climax in ´Going Underground´ has been cut back, stripped down to only its most basic parts ... Instrumentation is stark, spare and hard ...

´Monday´ is a beautiful love song that climbs up to classic status ... These influences are only incorporated to enrich what´s really there, and remain firmly subservient to Weller´s own songwriting gifts ...

´That´s Entertainment´ must rate as one of Paul Weller´s finest pieces to date ... He´s observing with more vivid descriptive ability than at any time previously ... As always the view point is a humane, personalistic one ...

Where SOUND AFFECTS is good it´s great, and where it´s not so good it´s still good ... I´ve got SOUND AFFECTS and I´m chuffed with it and all I want now is another Jam album.