Synkronized

Synkronized is the fourth album by British funk group Jamiroquai. The album is the first to feature new bass player Nick Fyffe, after frontman Jay Kay and original bassist Stuart Zender had a falling out mid-recording. According to Jay Kay, Zender’s departure led the band to start over, recording and releasing the tracks that would make up Synkronized within six months.

The second single, “Canned Heat”, was an international smash-hit dance track. It would later be immortalised in pop culture as the dance scene from the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite.

The third single, “Supersonic”, features the last appearance by didgeridoo player Wallis Buchanan. The band would abandon the use of the instrument for 2001’s A Funk Odyssey, despite the fact it had featured prominently in the groups sound from their very first single.

The album received generally positive reviews, but is contemporaneously eclipsed by their ultra-commercially successful follow up, A Funk Odyssey.