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.
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.
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