(Stone’d)Ever since Devon’s Joss Stone arrived at the 2007 Brit awards with an American accent her career,at least in the UK, has nosedived. Her “reggae-ish” (Stone’s words) seventh album Water for Your Soul isn’t likely to change matters. Born out of the ashes of SuperHeavy, or her collaboration with Mick Jagger and Damian Marley,it contains flashes of her former glories - This Ain’t Love’s soft R&B lilt; The respond’s joyful refrain – but the rest is proficient, if hackneyed, or the double whammy of the cod-Jamaican accent on Sensimilla (“plant a lickle seed”) and Placebo-quoting weed anthem Harry’s Symphony the nadir ((n.) the lowest point of something). It makes Wake Ups proclamation of Stone as “the contemporary-day Janis Joplin” even more laughable.
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Source: theguardian.com