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Track Listings
| 1. Mind 2 Motion |
| 2. Awfully Deep |
| 3. Cause for Pause Pt 1 |
| 4. Colossal Insight |
| 5. Too Cold |
| 6. A Haunting |
| 7. Rebel Heart |
| 8. Chin High |
| 9. Babylon Medicine |
| 10. Cause for Pause Pt 2 |
| 11. Move Ya Loin |
| 12. Thinking |
| 13. The Falling |
| 14. Toothbrush |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
And truly, this is a long dark night of the soul: on the excellent "Colossal Insight", Smith turns to God to save his sanity; on pitch-black soul number "The Falling", he's lost in an apocalyptic reverie, fantasising about smuggling hand-grenades onto an aeroplane. But luckily, Smith is agreeably incapable of presenting his predicament without moments of dark levity: see the title track, which recalls a stint at a mental hospital populated by "crooked doctors and kinky nurses". A man who dispatches the Reaper with a nudge and a wink, Roots Manuva remains one of British hip-hop's most potent forces. --Louis Pattison
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Slow steppa "Mind 2 Motion", as the title suggests, concerns itself with turning good intentions into good actions. Or, to be more precise, reconciling good intentions with bad behaviour. The guilt creeps in further on "Colossal Insight", to the sound of a twisted fairground, complete with haunted fruit machines: 'Gracious Lord/My Mega Almighty/I know that I been slightly outta your path& I know I should cut down on this drinking/too many late nights and wayward thinking.' "Too Cold" sees him corrupted by money, which makes 'civilised men start to act gunny gunny'.
Added to these internal struggles are external worries. Smith speaks of injustice on "A Haunting" and his suspicion of the powers that be on nasty bass-ridden grime anthem "Chin High": 'Government man keep fighting down the weed/While they boost up the booze, the Prozac and methadone.'
All this pressure seems to be affecting his mental health. The dub-heavy, acid-slashed horror film soundtrack of the title track is paranoia sonic-ified. His guilt and confusion is starting to get the better of him; 'Voodoo in the hills and I'm running from ghosties' he declares. Young black males have a higher instance of mental illness than any other social group, but its rarely discussed in young black music. Smith is not so afraid and speaks of trips to the 'farms of the funny.'
Awfully Deep may be an astounding hybrid of calypso, drum 'n' bass, breakbeat, electro, grime and hip hop, all heavily flavoured with dub. But, once its overlaid with Smith's rhymes, it's pure blues and soul. --Ruth Jamieson
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than his other work, even though some of the tunes are maybe
not quite as strong. The tracks have more structure and variety,
which will be more palatable for a wider audience. For me,
two tracks really stand out, "A Haunting" and "The Falling" which
are really beautiful.
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