Track Listing
1. Put Your Arms Around Me
2. Pocketful of Sunshine
3. Happy
4. Love Like This - (with Sean Kingston)
5. Piece of Your Heart
6. Soulmate
7. Say It Again
8. Angel
9. Backyard
10. Freckles
11. Who Knows
12. Pirate Bones
13. Not Givin' Up
| Details | | Playing Time: | 48 min. | | Producer: | Andrew Frampton, David Tench, Greg Kurstin, J.R. Rotem, John Shanks, Louis Biancaniello, Mads Hauge, Mike Elizondo, Natasha Bedingfield, Nate "Danja" Hills, Patrick Leonard, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Ryan Tedder, Sam Watters, Steve Kipner, The Runaways, Toby Gad, Wayne Wilkins | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Natasha Bedingfield (vocals, background vocals); Toby Gad (various instruments, programming); J.R. Rotem, Dernst "D.Mile" Emile, Greg Kurstin, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins (various instruments); Wendy Melvoin, Nick Lashley (guitar); Mike Elizondo (guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, programming); John Shanks (guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, background vocals); Mads Hauge (guitars); Carla Campbell, Mark Robertson, Julie Gigante, Natalie Leggett, Neel Hammond (violin); Hanoh, Keith Greene (viola); Vanessa Freebirn, Sebastian Toettcher, Victor Lawrence (cello); Richard Altenbach (strings); Wayne Wilkins (keyboard, keyboards, programming, drum programming, background vocals); Danja (keyboard); Andrew Frampton (keyboards, programming, background vocals); Charlie Judge (keyboards); Michael Valerio (bass guitar); Trevor Lawrence (drums, cymbals); Jeff Rothschild (drums, programming); Ravaughn Brown, Stee Kipner, Danielle Brisebois, Rico Love, Meleni Smith (background vocals).
Additional personnel: Sean Kingston.
In 2008 popster Natasha Bedingfield dropped a finely constructed, hook-filled effort in POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE. Rootsy and groove-oriented, but with plenty of contemporary R&B studio polish (a combo especially evident on the reggae-inflected standout "Love Like This," featuring Sean Kingston), POCKETFUL manages to be both laid-back and glamorous at once.
Bedingfield is equally adept at breezy, catchy dance-pop (the title track) as she is at heart-tugging love ballads ("Soulmate"). Sharp productions, head-nodding beats, singalong choruses, and Bedingfield's smooth, appealing vocals make POCKETFUL go down easy, and will keep fans coming back to these tracks again and again.
Editorial Reviews
3.5 out of 5 stars -- [With] uniformly strong pop and R&B songcraft -- highlighted by the Sean Kingston collaboration 'Love Like This'...
Blender
3 stars out of 5 -- [With] some sad-eyed ballads and solid R&B -- 'Piece of Your Heart' is a dark, brassy thing...
Rolling Stone
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