Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane

Songs About Jane is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Maroon 5, originally released in June 2002 via Octone-J Records.

Maroon 5 have certainly come a long way since their days in the indie outfit Kara's Flowers. After that band's demise in 1999, frontman Adam Levine surrounded himself with New York City's urban hip-hop culture and found a new musical calling.

Maroon 5 was born and their debut album, Songs About Jane, illustrates an impressive rebirth.

It's groovy in spots, offering bluesy funk on "Shiver" and a catchy, soulful disposition on "Harder To Breathe". "Must Get Out" slows things down with its dreamy lyrical story, and Levine is a vocal dead ringer for Men At Work's Colin Hay. Don't wince - it works brilliantly.

Songs About Jane is love-drunk on what makes Maroon 5 tick as a band. They're not glossy; they've got grit and a sexy strut, personally and musically.

It was much too slick to cross over commercially in 2002, but good enough for the pop kids to take notice.

This album is a 2016 repress on 180 gram black vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Europe via Interscope Records.