24 Hours (Tom Jones album)

24 Hours(2008)

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24 Hours is the 37th studio album by Welsh musician Tom Jones. It was released on 28 November 2008 by S-Curve Records internationally and by EMI Records in the United States.

In a review of the album for AllMusic, editor John Bush noted that Jones has "always chosen collaborators who can pinpoint how his classic sound would work in a contemporary context. Here, it's a pounding and drum-heavy production that still allows room for organic touches (blazing horns, stinging brass, twanging guitars). The quality of the songs is high, and most are kept in-house, so they match his persona well." Jude Rogers from The Guardian found that the ballads on 24 Hours "offer richer pickings", and described the title track as "an effective piece of Johnny Cash-lite about a man on death row. The final breaths of this character may close the album, but Jones's belly-deep bellow abides." Rogers' colleague, Observer critic Johnny Davis, wrote: "Jones bares his inner songwriter to Lily Allen producers Future Cut. Reflections on love, life and 'the wife' abound as horns parp Ronson-ly. But only Sixties cover "I'm Alive" soars."

In the United Kingdom, 24 Hours reached Gold status on 9 January 2009.

Note

• On track 13, following a period of silence after "24 Hours" (3:55), a hidden track plays, titled "Take Me Back to the Party".

• 24 Hours (Europe/international version) at Discogs
• 24 Hours (US version) at Discogs