Track Listing

1. If It's In My Mind It's On My Face
2. Amazing
3. Just Like Before
4. Loaded
5. Wedding Day
6. System
7. Dumb
8. Right Life
9. Rolling
10. Immaculate
11. Amazing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3702 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-12
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
`System', with its shimmering melodies, glistening layers of synths and acoustic guitar, and supple, electronic beats, "is a return to my roots," Seal says. "I wanted to go back to the guitar, to the very first instrument I wrote `Crazy' and `Killer' on, and get back to the fundamentals of what I really love to do."

For what he calls a `quintessential Seal album', Seal opted to collaborate with Stuart Price, best known for his work on Madonna's `Confessions on a Dancefloor'. "It was quite evident from the first track that Stuart and I were on the same page," Seal says, "that I'd found someone who was able to elaborate on and execute my vision for this record. He loved the songs and I loved his production technique and we just took it from there. He's one of those rare people who plays instruments, understands music theory, and gets what a singer goes through when he is singing a song."

Indeed Seal's pure vocal gift -- his soaring baritone that has become a signature on such hits as `Kiss From a Rose', `Fly Like An Eagle' and `Get It Together' -- amplify the dreamy atmosphere on new tracks `Swoosh', `Amazing' and `Wedding Day', an emotional ballad Seal wrote the morning he wed supermodel Heidi Klum, with whom he has three children.

"Family, my wife and children, that's my reason for being," Seal says. "Everything is done with them in mind, so perhaps that's the reason this new album is up-tempo. It does feel like a celebration of life. I am finally in a content and happy place to the point where I feel like I need to sing about it. It's made me want to address things that are close to home. That's why the album is called `System.' It's saying that against the odds, we have chosen to take control of our emotional system. Not being a victim of a system that's already in place, but creating our own."

Customer Reviews

Definitely a grower
I have been a huge fan of Seal since the beginning- in fact his first album is very possibly my favourite album of all time. However, listening to System at first, was a real disappointment and I was gutted to think that he had lost his song writing and musical integrity. But, and this is a huge "but", I've gone back to it recently and after a few more listens the melodies and hooks from every single track started to emerge out from under the dance beat and they have well and truly lodged themselves in my brain. I now love the album and I'm so glad that I gave it a second chance.
Seal, you are the genius that I always thought you were and I hope you keep on releasing music that you are proud of because that will be good enough for me.

System Seal
I've been a great fan of Seal's for years.
This in my mind is the best of the best by far.
This cd is more up beat than his past works.
Brilliant

Back with a bang
Stunning album with my favorites being If its in my mind......, Loaded and System. The sound is reminiscent of his earlier work with great synth and drum beats. Hasn't been off the CD player since I bought it.