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No Roots [Enhanced, Limited Edition]

Faithless | Format: Audio CD
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (7 Jun 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Enhanced, Limited Edition
  • Label: Arista
  • ASIN: B00020US6E
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 146,013 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Intro
2. Mass Destruction
3. I Want More - Pt 1
4. I Want More - Pt 2
5. Love Lives On My Street
6. Bluegrass
7. Sweep
8. Miss U Less, See U More
9. No Roots
10. Swingers
11. Pastoral
12. Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow
13. What About Love
14. In The End
15. Mass Destruction - P*Nut and Sister Bliss Mix
16. Mass Destruction (Video)

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After a decade as one of the world's most successful dance acts, Faithless's distinct sound has put them at risk of becoming dinosaurs. Thankfully No Roots doesn't rest on the laurels of former glory and delivers something quite special. Sister Bliss's shrill, semi-hard-house synth stabs are all but gone, replaced by less dated sounds and more thoughtful use of them. Tempos are lower and song structure plays a more valuable part, for No Roots is in fact only two gigantic, epic songs, with each track a progression on the previous one and clever segues leading into the next. The only song that doesn't fall into "Parts 1 & 2" is the lead single version of "Mass Destruction" tacked on the end; it's a funky, breaks-based tune with Maxi Jazz's trademark vocal (used sparingly throughout the album) over live bass and guitars.

Anyone who's seen Faithless live knows how they can jam around their back catalogue, making medleys and breakdowns of epic proportions: No Roots is a studio realisation of that. Highlighted by "I Want More", downbeat tunes build until their climax when an uptempo number will kick in. "Sweep" is simply a 909 drum and percussion loop with synth flourishes that drops into "Miss You Less, See You More", a classic house tune that closes part one of the album. Something other than a collection of hands-in-the-air floor-fillers and downbeat songs to chillout to, No Roots should be listened to in its entirety. It's a cohesive body of work that builds and dips in all the right places. --David Trueman

Product Description

FAITHLESS No Roots (2004 UK Strictly Limited Edition 16-track enhanced CD album featuring guest vocals from Dido and LSK plus samples from David Bowie & soul legend Nina Simone includes Mass Destruction - P*Nut and Sister Bliss Mix plus CD-Rom video presented in sealed gatefold card sleeve)
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4.3 out of 5 stars
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars So deep, yet so anthemic. So good... 6 Nov 2004
By Mitya
Format:Audio CD
It's never considered cool or likely to increase your chances of being seen as a veteran fan if you say the newest album is their best ever, but this is. It's a subtle yet blatent, soreen yet full-sounding exploration of, well, just about everything. Everything that Faithless so famously stare into, that is. Be it politics, inequality, midnless dancing, love, and the rest.

Faithless have always written intricate and measured music, often of some genius, and I don't think it's fair to say their previous output was more about mindless dance anthems. The likes of Sunday 8pm are littered with moving, artistic pieces of music. This album continues this trend implicitely, and works both on technically musical and emotive levels.

There is scarcely a lacklustre track on the album. I Want More offers that holy grail of meaningful sub-tones yet gung-ho anthemic club melodies, as does Everything Will Be Alright Tomorrow and What About Love which, as someone stated, really is this album's dance anthem.

In a nut-shell? Careful, deliberate music which is both artistic and endlessly anthemic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars again another work of genius 25 July 2005
By Alan J. Cartwright
Format:Audio CD
well, having been a faithless fan for a while, this was the 3rd alum i bought of theirs. it is arguably their finest piece of work. it is no longer filled with insomnia styled anthems, unless yyou count i want more, and is actually one big long song, cut into 2 parts. the instrimental second part is undoubtedly better. stand out tracks are i want more (part two), a great club track, everything will be alright tomorrow, which has a great little chilled insomnia style riff in i think, and swingers, a wonderful chillout out track that sends shivers down my spine when i hear it. honest! if your a big faithless fan you'll have this, if not then try it, and listen all the way through, it may just draw you in
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4.0 out of 5 stars A bit too concept-full 9 Jun 2004
By Normann Aaboe Nielsen
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Faithless is well-known for their mixture of modern rythms (I haven't quite found out whether it is house or dance) that they produce so slick that it really cannot be done much better. Sister Bliss' musicallity is fantastic and creates tapestries and walls of music where the voice and words from Maxi Jazz are arranged like pearls, glittering and demanding.

What brings out the joy in me is "Massdestruction" where the video on the CD is splendid and the music good ol'e Faithless. That number is outstanding and although it is close to "Insomnia" in its trance recitation that is Maxi Jazz at his best.

Sadly the rest of the CD is hit by a CONCEPT: The group has chosen to play all the numbers in the same key (C) and although this does make it easier for DJ's to inmix other tracks it brings the music to a bit of a stillstand. Too ambient, you could say. The worst is though that Maxi Jazz is stepping to the background in many tracks and is letting the soft-voiced LSK do the job. No, I don't like that - give me back the REAL Jazz and his insisting voice.

But I must still surrender: I like Faithless so much that I will recommend this album to you - but remember, it is more conceptual that the previous.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
This is a great Album and the only Faithless album I have. The bands sound can be likened to that of Massive Attack but with a less dark side to it and a few more beats thrown in... Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2008 by A. J. Fisher
4.0 out of 5 stars Don't lose faith!
I can easily see why people are understating the value of this record. It has followed in the wake of a whole host of anthemic tunes from Maxi and the gang and has been... Read more
Published on 14 May 2006 by M. Fermor
5.0 out of 5 stars Mr Newbz
Now first up whats with all these comments comparing 'no roots'it to 'reverence'? Why do bands have to stick with the same formula? Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2005 by Mr Dale Newbery
4.0 out of 5 stars A worthy swan song
I have to admit I was a bit disappointed in Faithless' new album "No Roots". I have been a big fan of the dance act since I first heard "Insomnia" in the nightclubs in my early... Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2004 by Erica Anderson
4.0 out of 5 stars sister bliss-tering
Well, I think this album is absolutely brilliant. The tunes are ace and it ties together well as a complete work. Read more
Published on 29 Jun 2004 by S. Vincent
4.0 out of 5 stars No Roots
I have always enjoyed Faithless' music. They have remained true to thier art yet still came up with some instantly recognisable tracks such as "Insomnia". Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2004 by Mr. J. Fraser
4.0 out of 5 stars miss u less, see u more
I have always found faithless a little boring, repetitive and monotone yet i do genuinely like there music. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2004 by karlos4129
4.0 out of 5 stars We Come Back ....
Fans of Faithless familiar only with Reverence won't recognise it.

Barring a few borrowed vocal lines and Maxi's smoothly delivered lyrics, No Roots is nothing like Faithless's... Read more

Published on 20 Jun 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars Rollo at his best...
This is the album that will see Faithless leave the dance mainstream and become the band Rollo always wanted. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2004 by Jimmy Jam James
4.0 out of 5 stars I WANT MORE
High were the expectations of this, Faithless' first new material since Outrospective and the outcome is well... difficult to say. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2004 by "kdonn2410"
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