Album Review: Foxton & Hastings - "The Butterfly Effect"
Although they bill themselves as From The Jam live, on record Bruce Foxton and Russell Hastings use this moniker, presumably to keep Paul Weller's lawyers from the door. Foxton's done a couple of decent solo albums in recent years in the form of 2012's Back In The Room and 2016's Smash The Clock so I was intrigued to see what this one would sound like. The answer is that it's a perfectly pleasant album but doesn't really leap out at you right from the moment the chugging blues rock of Electronic Lover starts the album. Feet Off The Ground , ironically enough, sounds like the Style Council with its chiming keyboards and almost jazzy rhythms while Lula is straight ahead AOR (complete with a sax solo). And so it pretty much continues throughout to be honest. Like I say, I'm aware that Foxton is in his sixties now and it's probably a bit unfair to expect him to still be the angry young firebrand he was in his Jam days but The Butterfly Effect , while i...