Trick
Bravado fully restored, Jamie T hits a career high. If 2014’s *Carry on the Grudge* was the welcome sound of the singer/songwriter recharting course after a five-year absence, this captures an artist with wind in his sails. *Trick* plays out like a Jamie T greatest hits: “Drone Strike<” is a twitchy mosh-pit botherer, “Power Over Men” sultry and sharp, while “Crossfire Love” sways by evocatively in that half rapped-half sung style no one executes better.
It’s strange to think that Jamie T, south London’s wayward punk prince, a British Beastie Boy with a dog-eared copy of Betjeman’s collected works in his backpack, is now 30 years old.
Trick has the potential to be the best thing on the radio for the rest of the year.
'Trick' is the sound of a more carefree and content Jamie T, trying new things and seeing what sticks.
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In a way, the most surprising facet of Jamie T's career isn't his five year absence but the fact that returned at all. After all, so many of the
Pop might love a reinvention, but it was hard to get excited by the one attempted by Jamie Treays, AKA Jamie T, on 2014s Carry on the Grudge.