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Ooooh! News on Arjanwrites is that Seal and Stuart Price are working together. I'm immediately thinking the Eurodisco of Madonna's Confessions... mixed with Seal's first album. How fucking exciting and... at last! There's only so much salivating you can do over both the Kylie and the Roisin Murphy albums after months of build up. What we need is a good old-fashioned side-wipe of news that two musicians like Price and Seal, one bringing technical wizadry, the other bringing the emotional voice, have met and gotten on... "He loved the songs and I loved his production technique and we just took it from there", Seal said. The album is called System and is out in November.

It's preaching to the converted here when I declare Price's album for Madge, Confessions..., as one of her best. But Seal's 1991 debut, Seal (not to be confused with the 1994 album Seal) has been long-forgotten because of his stadium-rock pretensions thereafter. Seal appeared through a fug of dry ice somewhere at the beginning of the 90s on Adamski's Killer. And then came his solo effort: he went beyond the confines of the club stuff, produced a worldwide smash and it still sounded fab on E! It's just a pity his own comedown lasted 15 years...

But apparently Seal's returning to that uptempo dance style of his first album, something to do with his family. I think. In Lala Land speak: "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". Well, whatever. I can't wait.

Future Love Paradise - Seal (mp3 Download)