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===2010β2019: ''Rock Dust Light Star'' and ''Automaton''=== ''[[Rock Dust Light Star]]'' was released in 2010 under [[Mercury Records]], where it charted at number 7 in the UK.<ref name="Charts-2018" /> Kay considered the album as "a real band record" that "capture[s] the flow of our live performances".<ref>{{cite web|last=Newton|first=Penny|date=26 October 2010|title=Jamiroquai Coming To Oz!|url=http://www.mtv.com.au/news/89b3e42f-jamiroquai-coming-to-oz-mtv-classic|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306030330/http://www.mtv.com.au/news/89b3e42f-jamiroquai-coming-to-oz-mtv-classic|archive-date=6 March 2012 |website=|publisher=[[MTV]]}}</ref> Critics have seen this as a return to their organic funk and soul style,<ref>{{cite web|last=Jones|first=Huw|date=1 November 2010|title=Review: Jamiroquai, Rock Dust Light Star |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/jamiroquai-rock-dust-light-star/|url-status=live|access-date=5 April 2021 |website=Slant Magazine|archive-date=2 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402225422/https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/jamiroquai-rock-dust-light-star/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Freed |first=Nick |date=16 December 2010|title=Album Review: Jamiroquai β Rock Dust Light Star|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2010/12/album-review-jamiroquai-rock-dust-light-star/|url-status=live|access-date=5 April 2021|website=Consequence|language=en-US|archive-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201001717/https://consequenceofsound.net/2010/12/album-review-jamiroquai-rock-dust-light-star/}}</ref> as it forgoes "the electro textures that followed the band into the new millennium", according to Luke Winkie of ''[[MusicOMH]]''.<ref name="musicomhrockdust">{{cite web |last=Winkie |first=Luke |title=Jamiroquai β Rock Dust Light Star {{!}} Album Reviews |url=https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/jamiroquai-rock-dust-light-star |website=[[MusicOMH]] |access-date=2 March 2021 |date=1 November 2010 |archive-date=24 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224190957/http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/jamiroquai-rock-dust-light-star |url-status=live}}</ref> It also has a sound Thomas H. Green of ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' described as "Californian Seventies [[funk rock]]".<ref>{{cite news|last=Green|first=Thomas H.|date=29 October 2010|title=Jamiroquai: Rock Dust Light Star, CD review|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/8097099/Jamiroquai-Rock-Dust-Light-Star-CD-review.html|url-status=live|url-access=subscription|access-date=4 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080337/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/8097099/Jamiroquai-Rock-Dust-Light-Star-CD-review.html|archive-date=15 December 2020}}</ref> [[File:Jamiroquai Automaton Performance 2017 (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|alt=A band all dressed in dark clothing performing on stage; a singer with a white LED head-dress, two guitarists, a keyboardist, and a bongo player are seen behind fog coloured green from the stage lighting|Jamiroquai performing at [[the O2]] in London, 2017. Left to right: Johnson, Harris, Williams, Kay and Akingbola.]] Jamiroquai released their 2017 album, ''[[Automaton (album)|Automaton]]'', through [[Virgin EMI Records|Virgin EMI]]. It was their eighth studio album and the first in seven years,<ref name="Driver-2017" /> reaching number 4 in the UK.<ref name="Charts-2018" /> It was produced by Kay and band keyboardist [[Matt Johnson (keyboardist)|Matt Johnson]], and it "carefully balance[s] their signature sound with... [[Electronic dance music|EDM]], soul and [[Trap music|trap]] sounds", according to Ryan Patrick of ''[[Exclaim!]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Patrick|first=Ryan B.|date=29 March 2017|title=Jamiroquai Automaton|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/jamiroquai-automaton|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126231554/http://exclaim.ca/music/article/jamiroquai-automaton|archive-date=26 January 2019|access-date=30 March 2017|website=Exclaim!|language=en-CA}}</ref> Craig Jenkins of ''[[Vulture Magazine|Vulture]]'' writes: "Arrangements that used to spill out over horn, flute, didgeridoo, and string accompaniments now lean closer to [[French house]]".<ref>{{cite web|last=Jenkins|first=Craig|date=31 March 2017|title=Jamiroquai and Nelly Furtado Navigate New Pop Waters|url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/03/album-review-nelly-furtado-and-jamiroquai.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111193730/http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/album-review-nelly-furtado-and-jamiroquai.html|archive-date=11 November 2020|access-date=20 February 2021|website=[[Vulture (magazine)|Vulture]]|language=en-US}}</ref> By 2018, the group's line-up consisted of Kay, Harris, McKenzie, Johnson, Turner, percussionist Sola Akingbola, Nate Williams on guitar and keyboards and Howard Whiddett with [[Ableton Live]].<ref name="members2018">{{cite news |last=Siclier |first=Sylvain|date=9 July 2018|title=Jamiroquai, formidable machine funk, Γ Arras|language=fr|work=[[Le Monde]] |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2018/07/09/jamiroquai-formidable-machine-funk-a-arras_5328232_1654986.html |url-status=live|access-date=22 February 2021|archive-date=9 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109013237/https://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2018/07/09/jamiroquai-formidable-machine-funk-a-arras_5328232_1654986.html}}</ref><ref name="OfficialWebsiteNews">{{cite web |title=Meet our talented new band members @natewilliams on keys & guitars and @howard.whiddett our ableton live whiz, welcome aboard chaps! :) #JamiroquaiLive2017|url=http://jamiroquai.com/news;news/id/231 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220728093446/https://www.jamiroquai.com/news;news/id/231|archive-date=28 July 2022|via=Jamiroquai.com |access-date=28 July 2022}}</ref>
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