"The man in the high office probably thought of this one: using Amazon's original TV series, The Man In The High Castle, as a jumping-off point for a covers collection of songs which, we're asked to imagine, would still be standards in a fictional 1962 in which the US is ruled by Nazi Germany on one side and Imperial Japan on the other. Throw in a big-name producer (Danger Mouse) and stars (Beck, Kelis, Norah Jones), the obvious TV tie-in, Amazon's weighty promo and distribution, and an online radio station of the same name, and you have yourself all the makings of a marketing wheeze to reap mucho dollars ... But little of the imagination promised by the concept seems to have seeped through into the covers, which are remarkably sedate and faithful for a world supposedly in the grip of two opposing ideological extremes. You wouldn't have thought the artistic inclination would be towards very, very pleasant versions of tried and tested chestnuts (Nature Boy, Unchained Melody,HouseOf The Rising Sun), but apparently it is".
