Jason Mraz: 'I'm Yours'

If you can't wait for the next Jack Johnson record, you'll probably love Jason Mraz. 'I'm Yours', the San Diego singer's calling card, is a laidback piece of West Coast pop that could slip easily onto any of Johnson's recent LPs. It's already taken over the airwaves in the US, Australia and pretty much everywhere else in Europe, so expect to hear this tune every half hour on Absolute Radio very soon.

Mraz's light-hearted enthusiasm and cheery singalong are hard to dislike on first listen, but his "skadi-badi-boodi-bo" vocal breakdowns soon become really quite teeth-grinding. With a calypso beat and harmonies that scream summertime louder than a jug of Pimm's perched on a freshly-mown lawn, this track's winter release seems strangely ill-timed. Nevertheless, Mraz's radio-friendly inoffensiveness is sure to grab him a sizable audience at some point in the future, so brace yourself for plenty more from the Mechanicsville - yes, that is a real place - troubadour.