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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Masters Return, 1 Mar 2006
This album is great to listen to. It’s so….well, Coldcut! A real mixture of styles. Hard to predict what the singles will be because a) there are several great tracks and b) none of them are particularly radio-friendly.Several of the tracks make the rear view mirror in my car shake with the bass – which is always a good sign. ‘True Skool’, featuring Roots Manuva is already getting airplay and could be a single, especially because of the name recognition. ‘Just for the Kick’ cleverly uses a camera whirr as percussion and starts with a couple of trademark overdubs, reminiscent of early Coldcut electro. ‘Walk a Mile in my Shoes’ (Robert Owens vocals) is a nice track – a kind of ambient/deep house production. ‘Mr. Nichols’ is an interesting one – a spoken (American male) vocal sounds like a reading from a book, with someone trying to talk Mr. Nichols in from a window ledge, over a William Orbit-type backing track. The words are well written – I’d love to know the story behind them – and the music is great. ‘This Island Earth’ starts off sounding like it’s going to be a post-Yazz, plinky plonky piano house tribute, but then veers off to become a sweet soul vocal over something that could be a Roni Size track if the bpm were higher – very nice. ‘Colours the Soul’ is another one that reminds me of William Orbit’s ‘Water from a Vine Leaf’. The album closes with ‘Sound Mirrors’ a classic Coldcut instrumental blend that sounds like it could be the closing score to a movie that would be a cross between The Matrix, Shopping and Young Americans – edgy, youthful and dramatic. All in all, a great collection of musical styles that do all hang together nicely as an album.
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