In his 40-year career, Joe Jackson has made the most diverse music: from jump blues to jazz, Latin and soundtracks. Pop fans remember him most from the spicy newwave albums , and from the late 1970s. On those driven records he combined punk energy with the complex pop songs of and . The good news is that Jackson regularly returns to that old sound for this album. He now lives in Berlin and before
… that in New York for years, but the England of his youth is popping up everywhere. Take the song Dave: a really small, clever pop song that could only have been written by a Brit. Who the 'fool' is from the title track is not entirely clear. Judging by this inspired album, it is certainly not Joe Jackson. With Fool, the now 64-year-old singer is certainly not a bad figure. (PdK)more