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  • Audio CD (5 Mar 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: K7
  • ASIN: B000EXZIGO
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,014 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Something Isn't Right 3:44£0.79
Listen  2. The Movers And The Shakers 4:15£0.79
Listen  3. Moving Like A Train 5:53£0.79
Listen  4. Harmonise 5:39£0.79
Listen  5. We're In Love 4:43£0.79
Listen  6. Birds Of A Feather 5:05£0.79
Listen  7. Those Feelings 4:23£0.79
Listen  8. Down 6:12£0.79
Listen  9. Movie Star 4:14£0.79
Listen10. Just Once 6:23£0.79
Listen11. Wrong 1:01£0.79

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U.K. house producer Matthew Herbert is perhaps most noted for his playful approach to digital sampling technology. Composing his songs using sounds as varied as kitchen utensils and human skin, Herbert has bridged the worlds of conceptual and populist art unlike any other musical artist. His 2006 effort, SCALE is an audacious pop album of quixotic proportions. Steeped in lush harmonies reminiscent of 1950s vocal jazz, Herbert and cohort Dani Siciliano wrap bitter political messages inside candy-coated lyrical double entendres. Underscoring a commitment to politics on a global scale, Herbert provides real-world context by sampling objects such as: coffins, gas pumps, and an RAF Tornado bomber. Such highbrow conceptual hijinks might leave the impression that SCALE is dryart-school fodder--but make no mistake, this is pure pop music. And while much of SCALE is worthy of filling more discerning DJ crates, it's the songs with a more experimental take on texture and tone that indicate it's scope beyond sweatydance floors. On the dark ambient track "Just Once", muffled voices and shortwave static create an air of foreboding--suggesting a scarier world just outside the dancehall.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not good enough., 7 Aug 2006
It's like Matthew Herbert has finally found a way to put every musical style he has experience in his recent albums together into one big melting pot. There are funky/house beats, jazzy arrangements, big cinematic strings, experimental sounds, poppy vocals and innovative songwriting. The album starts nicely with "Something Isn't Right" with a straight dance beat with mixture of male and female vocals. His long time collaborator Dani Siciliano does the female vocals here again. Next three songs are high quality stuff also and "We're in Love" is a beautiful song with old orchestral jazz feeling and Hollywood-esque strings.

Unfortunately the rest of the album lacks the quality of the first half of the record. There are many great moments in the rest of the songs but it seems that Herbert is little stucked in his own cleverness. The album is a little too long and the compositions start to sound too similar to each other. There are so much hooks and different parts in the songs that it's hard to hang on 'till end of the album.

One problem is also that often "Scale" sounds maybe a bit too much like Roisin Murphy's solo album "Ruby Blue" which was produced by Herbert.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars stunning, 16 April 2008
By Matthew H "Matthew H" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
  
This is a brilliant, mellifluous and sonorous pop record. It is not usual to describe the music of Matthew Herbert as pop but, with scale, he has produced an album that is just about accessible to everybody. It is even more unusual to describe pop music as stunning (one would not describe chart music as such) but I am willing to do it here. Usually when a record has so much going on, the various instruments, voices, samples, bleeps, beats etc get lost in a sea of noise. Not here; the record is produced to perfection. Indeed, it is produced so well that one has to listen to it a number of times before one realises its true genius. Many a time have I listened to this record and discovered something new and interesting. However, all the interest never distracts you from the music's foundation: melodious tunes, great singing, solid beats. Impressive stuff indeed.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars another awesome hit from the herbert camp, 12 Nov 2006
By Mike Mono (London) - See all my reviews
this man just gets better and better, if there was any justice in the world, this would win all the awards, be played on the radio all the time and generally make everyone's lives a lot better. as it is, songs like movers and the shakers, harmonise and the supreme moving like a train can be a joyous secret waiting to be shared. if you like the other albums, you'll know what to expect - if not - join in!
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