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Track Listings
| 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
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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 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
So deep, yet so anthemic. So good...,
By Mitya (Nottm., UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: No Roots (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.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
again another work of genius,
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This review is from: No Roots (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
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A bit too concept-full,
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This review is from: No Roots (Audio CD)
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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