AMG Review of Escapology

All Music Guide

For ex-Take That member Robbie Williams, beneficiary of an enormous, multi-million dollar contract exceeding even that of Janet Jackson, Escapology continues a successful career that's made him one of Europe's biggest stars since going solo in the late '90s. America remained Williams' next horizon to be conquered, and to that end he moved to the Left Coast, where he and longtime producer Guy Chambers got down to compositional woodshedding and emerged with these tracks. Not surprisingly, the rigors of fame come up whether in the context of sexual performance anxiety (the jangly, midtempo "How Peculiar") or a quest to sidestep cynicism (a very Elton-like "Something Beautiful")., Rovi