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UK journalists where treated to an exclusive preview of Michael Jackson’s new album Xscape last night. The album is a collection of unheard songs from the vaults of The Estate Of Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n

However, the first reactions following the preview appeared to be mixed.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Sky News this morning verdicts ranged from “sounds choppy” “sounds like bits of different songs glued together” “over produced”.<\/p>\n

Bernadette McNulty from The Telegraph was on hand “Xscape at least sounds more like a labour of love and with only eight songs, a judiciously edited and cohesive album rather than an endless memory-stick jumble of offcuts. The balance often feels quite subtle and even-handed between the original song and the new styles of orchestration and production. The lyrics, perhaps the critical thing in the magic of the final Jackson mix, often so strange and mantra-like, sounded on these songs forgettable generic, bar one that asked, Michael Gove-like, if you knew where your children were at midnight<\/strong> if they weren\u2019t at home.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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