Doubt by Jesus Jones

Doubt, the second Jesus Jones album, came out through Food Records on 21 January 1991, and it's techno-rock in a Day-Glo hurry. After the debut Liquidizer did well, the label wanted more hits, and frontman Mike Edwards wrote them in hotel rooms and on the tour bus. The band cut some of the songs in early 1990 and knocked out the bulk of the album in a single week that May at Matrix Studios in London. Edwards produced most of it himself, with Food co-founder Andy Ross and Martyn Phillips each producing one song.

The idea was to push the sample-heavy sound of Liquidizer further and ask what dance music could do to rock. They'd been soaking up the KLF, Janet Jackson and Mel and Kim, and it shows: the grooves hop, the samples skitter, and the guitars stay bright and bratty. There are psychedelic touches that recall late-period Beatles and the baggy crowd of Happy Mondays and the Charlatans, and Edwards' lyrics got compared to those of Ray Davies. "Right Here, Right Now" is the one that caught the moment, a wide-eyed, breezy anthem, with "Real, Real, Real" and "International Bright Young Thing" bouncing right alongside.

It topped the UK chart, went platinum in the US, and put "Real, Real, Real" and "Right Here, Right Now" into the Hot 100's top five, with a nice push from MTV. Both the album and "Right Here, Right Now" were nominated for Grammys, and the song won an award from BMI and PRS as the most played track on college radio.

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