Slow Dance is a curious name for the deeply dull and undanceable album that Jeremy Jay has produced here. Across ten mercilessly samey tracks, you feel subjected to these songs, rather than being involved in them. Peddling slow, soft pop, Jay makes the whole affair sound like an insufferable vanity project. It’s all so incredibly boring and middle of the road that it’s more or less impossible to recommend it to anyone.

Jay, in his effeminate vocal style, warbles on and on about dancing, slowly. Inspiringly enough. The backdrop is of overwhelming uninspiring guitars and disinterested drumming, which only serves to increase the numbing, anaesthetic feel of much of what is on offer here. Some tracks are worse – ‘Winter Wonder’ sounds like a third-rate reject from some MOR Christmas compilation, for example. The fact that there’s a second version of the title track, as well as tracks called ‘Gallop’ and ‘Canter Canter’ just goes to show how little Jay has to offer, how shallow the imagination here is.

Slow Dance isn’t catchy or interesting enough to be a worthwhile entry in the pop canon, and will most likely be legitimately ignored… and so be it, because no-one will be missing much. In the grand scheme of things, Slow Dance is just another fragment of chaff being swept away on 2009′s heady winds – look elsewhere for quality pop.
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