Track Listing

1. Brand New Bass Guitar
2. Salvador
3. Calm Down Dearest
4. So Lonely Was The Ballad
5. Back In The Game
6. Operation
7. Sheila
8. Pacemaker
9. Dry Off Your Cheeks
10. Ike And Tina
11. If You Got The Money
12. Alicia Quays

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #860 in Music
• Released on: 2007-01-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
"I think that’s the scrappiest version I've ever done of that in my life," mutters Jamie T. He's just finished playing "Brand New Bass Guitar", the first track on debut album Panic Prevention - but the fact it makes the cut says a lot about the free-wheeling, spontaneous spirit of this Wimbledon-born singer-songwriter. Equal parts Joe Strummer and Dizzee Rascal, Jamie narrates witty, filthy, sometimes tragic tales of London life peppered with patois and accompanied by cheap drum-machine beats and the twang of an acoustic bass guitar. That's not to say these songs sound in any way half-formed. On the contrary, in fact, apparently disparate sounds – post-Libertines garage rattle, bumping ska, UK hip-hop - gel neatly thanks to Jamie's garrulous charisma and brassy, clever wordplay. "Salvador" is a driving, spooked slice of punk-blues that couches tales of nightclub pulling in feral, predatory terms, while the deceptively sing-along "Shelia" conceals a tragic narrative of assorted alcoholics and various ne'er do wells that meet with various sticky ends. It's a dangerous, cutthroat London that Jamie roams, but importantly, Panic Prevention makes it sound like ruddy, bloody good fun from start to close.--Louis Pattison

Amazon.co.uk Review
One of the latest London MC/producers to follow in the formidable footsteps of The Streets, Jamie T mixes up an earnest slack-rap style with influences that range from reggae-inspired post punk bands like The Clash to drum & bass, electronica, hip hop and even a splash of Tom Waits-roguery. His eclectic, guitar-wielding approach has spawned a spread of intriguing singles – "Calm Down Dearest", "Sheila", "If You've Got The Money" – all of which have built up a buzz for the release of his debut album. As joyously shambolic as all you'd expect given his earlier work, Panic Prevention seems to tick a number of different boxes while occupying its own singular niche. Off-kilter concoctions like "Dry Off Your Cheeks" counter-balance the almost-pop of "Salvador" and the jaunty "So Lonely Was The Ballad". Though decidedly rambling, the project displays Jamie's impressive ability to pull off some pretty wild sound experiments, and confirms the incisive nature of his "urban" lyricism. Even better, it makes you wonder what this clearly precocious scenester will dare to cook up next. --Paul Sullivan.

CD Description
'Panic Prevention' is the debut album from London-based Thamesbeat pioneer Jamie T. Sonic monologues to the grittier side of city life abound on this album, backed with Jamie's unique take on hip-hop, ska and indie, giving this album a mass appeal that many of his peers would envy. Includes the singles 'Sheila', 'Calm Down Dearest' and 'If You Got The Money'.

Customer Reviews

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Thirty years after Culture's classic "Two Sevens Clash" inspired a wave of punky reggae Brits, the Jamaican groove is abroad as never before on the homefront. Jamie T joins a skankophile contingent that stretches from his pal Lily Allen to Damon Albarn.

Charmingly prefab reggae is not, however, the only weapon in the 20-year-old's armoury. Jamie Treays' apprenticeship has included running club nights at a central London folk venue, busking in his local high street and making magnificently eruptive guerrilla raids with his Clash-like electric band. In a plucky tradition of self-made Brits that stretches from Joe Strummer, through Billy Bragg, up to Mike Skinner, Treays is a contemporary poet of the everyday. His songs feature an Iraq war veteran back from the front ("Pacemaker") and binge-drinking lasses on the tear ("Sheila"). Vitally, he also has a sophisticate's feel for melodies that play on the heartstrings, most prominent on "So Lonely Was The Ballad" and "Salvador".

The opening "Brand New Bass Guitar" may be a ruff and ready piece of self-mythology that's a homage to Jamie T's myspace roots, yet his epiglottal shakes and shudders recall `50s rocker The Big Bopper. Thereafter, his spit-singing raps mash Cockney argot and rudeboy insouciance. Panic Prevention, named for musical cure-alls he devised to fight pharmaceutically engendered panic attacks, is a glorious blend of wired energy and sullen attitude.

Call it old skool, new school or whatever, the reggae influence is crucial, most explicitly on dub-heavy closer "Alicia Quays". A modern folk poet who invokes past heroes as he brings the present to life, Jamie T's next challenge will be to channel this feral and combustible brew into a career. In the meantime, he's already made one of 2007's most notable debuts. Press that Panic button now.

brilliant
Its not often that an album comes along that you can listen to over and over again. Arctic monkeys done it with whatever you say i am and now jamie t has done it with panic prevention. His voice, lyrics and beats tie together all that we know from being young and in London. Every song is great and can be listened to over and over again, my personal favourites being dry off your cheeks and so lonely was the ballad.
Panic prevention is a must buy for 2007, can't imagine another album being any better, the album leaves you begging for more. jamie is amazing live and panic prevention seems to capture this spirit, seems like it has just been put together by jamie in his bedroom but sound so so so good that you can tell its a master at work. Will become a classic!!!! Snap one up now and lets make this 21 yr old huge!!!!
*** dont think it is right to keep comparing him to mike skinner there are a few similarities but not many, jamie has tied together all types of music, and should be congratulated for this.

The sound of 2007 (and hopefully many more)
i bought this album based on the 3 great singles. but listening to the album i was amazed that they weren't even the best tracks. song like "salvador" and "so lonely was the ballad" could easily have been released as singles and would have been huge. well worth buying if you are a fan of any type of music