Remedy

Ever been on a shit work night out and stuck in a trendy bar you hate with people you don’t like watching some cunt from another department occasionally stand up and pretend the music is danceable before realising it’s not and sitting down again? The DJ is playing this album. ⭐️⭐️

“Remedy” by Basement Jaxx (1999) Completely unfamiliar with this. Likely to stay that way. This is dancing and drinking music. Electronic ‘sounds’ and four-on-the-floor rhythm machine foundations. Compositionally, this is is an elaborate musical doodle. Some interesting and innovative samples, like “Merengue” on “Bingo Bango”, but I’ve gotta draw a line here: Whose music am I assessing? These sounds (not songs) provide a background for more important things, like looking/smelling good at the club and hoping to get lucky. Lyrics are inconsequential. Two stars for some interesting sonic distractions. Now another shot of Axe and back to cruising for honey. 2/5

I’m honestly getting sick of the weird amount of electronica albums I’ve gotten recently. As I listen to each of these, I’ve come to realize why daft punk and fatboy slim have lasted into the 21st century while all of the artists like this one are relics of the 90s at this point. Not as bad as the last album though. Fav song: red alert

In a Rolling Stone interview, one of the members of Basement Jaxx bemoaned the state of dance music, using words like "robotic," "shiny," and "superficial" (among others). I would use all of those words to describe this horribly generic dance album, so I would say that they failed in their quest to transform the genre. They also failed to make house music interesting. Hard pass. Best track: U Can't Stop Me

I bought this when it came out, at the time house music seemed adventurous and mysterious, but Basement Jaxx gave it a geekier and more accessible edge. I think because Felix wears glasses. There are some duff tracks, but there's just enough intelligence and sophistication here to elevate it above the standard Ibiza floor fillers.

I must have my lists mixed up. This is clearly from "1001 albums that will bore you to death befeor you die for real." 1.5/5

Gay Barf

I can go for a fair amount of EDM but I found this album to be grating and obnoxious. There always seems to be at least one repetitive element in each song that is placed there simply to be so annoying that when they remove it, you get this rush of relief. And the way some things are processed is so over the top it throws off the balance of the mix completely. Absolutely fatiguing. I'd honestly prefer to listen to the more "linear, close minded, shiny, robotic, superficial" electronic music they disparaged in interviews than have to sit through this high contrast carnival ride again.

Just not interesting to listen to. After 30 seconds you know what each song is.

AXE BODY SPRAY OF MUSIC

This album is great and you guys are too harsh

I can’t believe this came out in 1999. The distorted vocals on “Rendez-Vu” and “Yo Yo” would be right at home on a hyperpop song today. Way ahead of its time. Mostly house with a little techno. The music is stuffed with manic sampling and beat shifts. It’s got a wild personality but still feels like something that would play on an actual dance floor. Honestly, I would love to hear more crazy stuff like this on dance floors. It’s so inventive and fresh but still has a killer beat. Great album cover too. Highlights: “Rendez-Vu,” “Red Alert”

"Hello fellow kids. I heard you like this new music from Skrill-eggs and Dead-Mouse. You should totally check this out!" -Vibes

Is this the unreleased album from the guy in 'Peep Show'?

Background music. This kind of album is always hard to review because you're not supposed to be listening to it from the comfort of your home with breakfast in hand. I hated the song with the random moaning woman. What an annoying sample.

I haven't been too thrilled about this one. Progressive house from the late 1990s is far outside my wheelhouse and I've never heard many albums in this style, so it will take a lot of getting used to (and I'm not there yet). I'm struggling to distinguish all the tracks after three listens. That said, it probably didn't help that the first time I heard it was while staying with my parents, punctuated by my mum sweeping in and out and lamenting the noise I'm listening to nowadays. Not too surprisingly, the tracks bearing most of a semblance to songs were the ones that stuck with me- these were generally the singles. "Red Alert" and "Bingo Bango" offer strong hooks, memorable vocals and distinctive sampling- if more of the album had been in this vein, I might have enjoyed it more. Instead there were waves of repetitive four-to-the-floor ("Yo-Yo", "Same Old Show") and a few more daring sonic experiments that seemed like they were designed to show off production technique rather than to inspire a listener to move, or to actually feel something ("Always Be There", "Don't Give Up"). Stretch these two characteristics out over 57 minutes and 12 songs and the overall effect was an album washing over me, moving around me rather than through me. As well as the two highlights mentioned above, I'd also single out the interesting use of acoustic guitar sampling in "Rendez-Vu", along with the smooth melody in "Being With U". I also enjoyed the Latin-influenced percussion in places, brightening up the mellow "Stop 4 Love" and more obviously in "Bingo Bango". Barring that, I really don't think I'll be coming back to this one to listen to without jumping around in a club. I appreciate that if this style of music in general was my bag, I might recognise how it pioneered a movement, everything it influenced, how ahead of its time it may be. But in my very limited view of the genre, "Remedy" does nothing to suggest it's reinventing the wheel or presenting a radical step forward in dance music.

England, why do you keep hurting me?

What an album, one of the original acts from what was the birth of the mainstream house scene that we know today. It gives me "Ministry of Sound" vibes well before it was propelled into existence. Best: Rendez-Vu, Stop 4 Love, Worst: N/A Couldn't fault it, a fantastic debut for Basement Jaxx!

jesus the first half of this is weird. it chills out a bit after that but the first like 5 songs and then a couple afterwards are simultaniously very dated to the late 90s while also being insanely ahead of their time. yo-yo is practically just deconstructed club but with 90s dance. theres ridiculous autotune vocals, sloppy singing about vampires or whatever, and the chorus has some insane glitchy sounds like ?????????? the more normal stuff is super sick too. being with u is super pretty, almost everything here is pretty jammin. the vocals are a little obnoxious on the first track but its mostly good. really cool 90s dance album with a few tracks thatre just kind of insane? Great Music 9/10

Fun album. Some very catchy tunes. Would listen again.

I remember when this album had a moment in culture. Don’t think this was good tho

The soundtrack to a million pints of Stella in your local All Bar One at the end of the last millennium. Hated it then, but if you offered me the chance to return to 1999, with the condition I had to listen to this shit 1000 more times, I'd bite your hand off. Having to sit through it even once today without any such benefit was borderline impossible. Just dreadful

Remedy I have not thought of Basement Jaxx for a long time. A long time. They were of course really big at the end of the 90s and although I’m by no means a connoisseur of electronic music I never really got into them in the same way as I did with bands like the Chemical Brothers or Daft Punk or even people like Bentley Rhythm Ace or Apollo 440. Rendez-Vu I remember well and is a great bit of, I presume, balearic influenced house music, the spanish guitars giving a nice soft edge. Yo Yo carries on the vocoder vocals but I like the disco/funk bass and the slightly spare groove is great. Jump’n’Shout is a fun bit of ragga house, the synth bass is nice. I really U Can’t Stop Me, the slightly broken rhythm pattern and vague garage feel is pretty cool, again great bass. 4 bangers to start. Never been that keen on Red Alert. Although I can appreciate it’s catchiness, I think it’s the mannerisms of the vocalist that I'm not sure about. Always Be There is fine, if a bit forgettable, it feels like its straining for catchiness but not quite getting there. Same Old Show is good, sampling On My Radio and making a very good slightly dubby house track. Bingo Bango is a bingo banger - always liked this one and is great bit of hook laden house. Stop 4 Love is a nice change of style, a kind of necessary break from some of the four on the floor house, a nice bit of atmospheric electronica. Don’t Give Up is decent, I like the flattened EQ in the more intense sections, but definitely feeling the length of the album now. Being With U I can take or leave, there are some nice little keyboard bits but is a bit underwhelming. I like the disco and funk influence particularly the bass and the overall good time party music vibe, however there is no getting away that it starts to feel a bit samey over the course of the hour, but then I suppose if you are not into guitar based music you could say the same about a lot of albums I like. Having said that they do seem to have front loaded the first half with their better tracks, there is certainly a bit of filler towards the end. Also I do think rhythmic/tempo repetitiveness can start to get a bit samey more quickly than melodic or harmonic repetitiveness, and obviously dance, big beat, house all have broadly similar tempos, so unless its a DJ a mix an hour of sequential dance tracks can drag a bit (as they don’t necessarily lend themselves to the idea of the ‘traditional’ album), even if taken individually many of the tracks are good. Anyway the first half is a great listen and there are some excellent tracks, more than most dance albums have, and also moments throughout, although I’m more likely to pick tracks for a playlist than listen to in its entirety again. Tricky to rate, somewhere between 3 and 4. It’s probably a 3 as an album, but a 4 for them being great at what they do and for making at least 3 or 4 bona fide pop house bangers. I’ll go 4. 💊💊💊💊 Playlist submission: U Can’t Stop Me

Love these guys, so decent and nostalgic too. Straight from first track feels like it's gonna be a 4 or 5 🤙. Red Alert big tune, Bingo Bango too. Halfway through, feels like a 4. Ended up being like a 4.5, some great tunes but just not quite enough for a 5.

Yo Yo Yo YoYoYoYo Bumtsbumtsbumts. Werd. Repetitive house music isn't my thing but as a 90's kid, the Basement Jaxx were kind of hard to ignore. They were on a lot of the soundtrack of my youth. Though I didn't listen to this specific record, I never liked or disliked them. Listening to this now, it fine. I see it's appeal. But listening to it on a Saturday morning while drinking coffee and playing a game on my cell phone is not exactly the intended venue for this sort of thing. I will say, it gave my sub a workout.

This is the debut album from duo Basement Jaxx, and it was well received critically. This house music album challenged the edm scene at the time by trying different elements in their songs, to break out of the established linear and robotic edm music of the 90's. As a classic house music album, there will be a couple songs for each and everyone to like, but not everyone shares the same tastes for dance music so not all of the songs will be winners. This album may have been overhyped at release, but its music still holds up today as classic house. I enjoyed listening to this album since I would say edm is my favorite genre, and this may be the first house album I've encountered on this list.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Rendez-Vu, U Can't Stop Me, Red Alert, Bingo Bango Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Good house music. Loved the layers and little sounds that were almost like Easter eggs scattered around the songs. Really rewards multiple listenings. That being said, it's still house music, and comes with all the negatives of that genre. 3.5 rounded down, but still a great example of this kind of music.

Bumpy! Some interesting ideas and benefits from not being super self-conscious and serious. Not a fan of the autotune. Fav track: Same Old Show.

Music for negotiating premium sex contracts in a Mayfair club is a genre I’ve never followed, but I can respect the craft and hope that this bought some people happiness.

HL: "Rendez-Vu", "U Can't Stop Me", "Stop 4 Love".... maybe "Jump n Shout"? I guess it deserves props for making Daft Punk want to make better music after Homework (Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk proclaimed the album as "better than [theirs]." - Spin Magazine) Inventive and quirky, some of the instrumentals are grating as heck, watched a couple music videos for the singles only to have the strobe-light visuals overwhelm me further. Idk what the take away is, do I need to be on molly to wholeheartedly enjoy this? 2.5 July 11, 2023 (later)

Almost every song had the same beat. Pretty wild we’ve gotten so many late 90’s electronic albums on here because they all sound so similar which should disqualify them from this list

Reminds me of being 17, but not in a good way - just sounds like everything I had to tolerate on the radio. Could easily be Fatboy Slim or Moby, or any of the other cash-in copyists that followed.

Like most EDM-derived music, this album is best judged on the dancefloor instead of my home office. Regardless, the only high point on this album for me was Red Alert, which had a great dirty bass synth and a tremendous beat to drive it. Everything else is really just alright. Nothing terrible, but I don't think I'd ever come back to this album again.

An album and a sound that hasn’t aged well. There are a couple of good tracks on here but it’s far too long, most of it is tedious and the whole album sounds tired and dated now

1.6

Never enjoyed basement jaxx before. This album was some of the worst from them that I've heard. High 1.

Cool beats.

Amazing album, one of my favourites from 90-s electronica

not my area of expertise obviously but i rly rly rly like this one! its like a party record for a party it sounds like i can actually handle...very very warm and un-intense (or perhaps just un-busy) in its timbres (some rly wonderful bass sound on here..), even where it still manages to have fun bangers. its all very flowy and approachable, lots of great peaks of total euphoria. as could be predicted, i rly like the ballady tracks...always be there in particular kinda took my breath away! just a very fun and pleasing record,,,didnt even rly feel its length to me!

nostalgia

That was just an epic pile of remix and mashup. Permanent rotation on my phone.

Such a good upbeat album, pretty awesome for a debut. Faves: Yeah, all the singles.

Finally something that isn't dad rock. Great stuff.

This slaps

When it comes to finding "great" music, I am of the belief that one of two things happens. In scenario A, the album is objectively great and will be great no matter when you encounter it. These are relatively rare and make up the space of canonical classics for each genre. In scenario B, an album crosses your path that is perfect for you at a particular time. These albums are serendipitous gems that resonate with some primed internal condition. I think what separates the two is how the albums hold up across time and repeated listens. And thus, are indistinguishable at first discovery. This album falls into one of the above two categories for me. While it runs a bit long it never feels a chore and is honest fun the whole way through. Production and mixing are top notch throughout. And the variety of sounds keep things nimble and in constant motion. Jump N' Shout is fucking dope. Love the reggatone style vocals mixed with a hopping, endlessly escalating synth line. Just fun as hell and reminds me a bit stylistically of earlier Deadmau5 mixed with Madlib or something. U Can't Stop Me is another fun one. Absolutely loving the R&B vocals and thickness of the bass. Same Old Show is fantastic -- I love the falsetto vocals shining through the rest of the mix. They give it a delightfully off center vibe. Don't Give Up had me fully hooked in. All said, this is a soft 5 for me. I'm not sure if this would always resonate as it did today, but I'm glad I tapped into it when I did.

Remedy is the debut album from Basement Jaxx, which was met with near-universal acclaim. This is a great collection of house tracks - danceable, fun, and inventive songs. House music can be boring, and defaults toward repetitive elements. Basement Jaxx created this work to be a "Remedy" to the linear, robotic norms of early 90s dance music. This album is considered among the best EDM albums ever released. It includes some of the pair's biggest hits, like "Red Alert," and "Rendez-Vu," and a collection of interesting, varied tracks that will get almost anyone up out of their seat.

yall are fucking squares

The bangers are bangers and the fillers are bangers. What an album

I liked this. Chilled out background music or cranked up as dance music. Either way it's brill

Fun, eclectic dance, full with the whoops and whistles, but belying a tuneful soul. I never tire of it.

Classic of electronica...one of my most listened to albums of that era. First half definitely exceeds second, but all a fun listen. 5/5

Cool electronic

Filled to the brim with juicy details, this album fills in the gaps left by many electronic music groups putting way too much faith in thei staying power of their loops. Some groups nail the satisfying loop and create repetitive 5+ minute long songs worth listening to, but Basement Jaxx largely accomplish this satisfaction differently by frequently adding in new elements, and starting off dense to begin with. They're clearly masters of sound production, so many sounds and samples feel so novel. This shit must be so much fun at clubs. Overall, I feel that this has shown me a different approach to club friendly music that retains it's craftsmanship through unique sounds and rewards over a loop rather than a really solid loop. Some songs start off weak here and there, but I felt that all of them build to something with a great, continous, delicious payoff.

Absolutely classic house. I typically prefer more deep house stuff but as far as the more upbeat, dancey side goes this is impeccable. I love the Latin flavor throughout it.

That was so good! I didn’t love every song, but the ones I did were so so groovy! Yea!

Pretty dang cool and exciting house album, def need to revisit

Great album. Brings back memories.

This album is so cunty (positive connotation)

So fun. Just bopping along while working.

First 70-degree day of 2024; working on the chicken coop

Awesome!!

Yeah, this is just end to end fun. Never picked up on The Selecter sample when I was young, just makes me like it even more. It's a 9/10 album, but I'm rounding up cos it makes me smile.

The stuff that came out when you were an adolescent.... that's the purest form of nostalgia. Even if you never actually heard it, it can still put you in that specific emotional world. Everything about 1999 was moody and sexy. IIt must've been a hard time for asexuals, way harder than for gay people. They didn't have marriage yet, but who would want to get married when shit like this was coming out?

All tracks are excellent

one of the coolest ones so far, experimental and interesting and blending of a lot of different sounds

My kinda music.

The rhythm, the tracks, the Basement Jaxx! This album helped get me into electronic music (bought a used CD in 2009 or so and proceeded to wear it out), so I'm biased. But yeah, this whole album is fuckin' popping imho. Particularly Bingo Bango and Rendez-Vu, but every song has its place and its own charm to me. Stop 4 Love, for instance, has an ethereal and experimental quality to it that feels more like something that would've come out a lot closer to the present, or at least come from another artist. The people calling this a generic dance album obviously weren't listening very closely (or quit out of the album early). Anyway, easy 5. It's not Discovery or whatever, but this will always be a classic to me. It's got a couple flaws imo, but I also don't really care about them because I fucking love it. Basement Jaxx have some killer singles that came later, but none of their albums ever beat this one.

Excelente!

I can hear how this influenced Steve Aoki, Guetta, Glitch Mob. This album was a banger. Saved Jump n' Shout, many notable tracks including Red Alert as another stand out. Guess it's a 5!

Top Quality

DANCE

The beats on this are unbelievable. Some of them hit me real hard, and some of them are just so creative, energetic, or out of the left field. Red Alert is an especially great track!

Great to hear this on again!!!

This... is the complete opposite of anything I would typically listen to and yet I was blown away by every second of this album. So raw, so versatile, yet so clean. Exactly what I was aiming for by doing this 1001 Albums thing - to broaden my horizons and this album here did it.

Pacing is perfect in each song and the album. Not even my favourite basement jaxx album, but still pretty great

I like it!

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Nice. I'd only heard most of these songs as remixes from much later. Easy listening house you love to see it.

Banger

Uno de las mejores cosas que he escuchado so far aquí. Para ser del 99 suena al 2022. Glorioso. Un montón de tracks tienen autotune, suena muy actual está bien loco.

Pretty chill electronic album.

First that I have heard of Basement Jaxx. I enjoyed this album! Excellent house dance music for my ears and mood today! I had my first listen last night and I liked it, but didn't love it. Today I listened again and loved it! The tracks kept me dancing and wanting more! Red Alert!!

Stunning

Funky time!

Every single song, doesn't fail to impress me. It's house music but reshaped

I love EDM, so this will be great.

hermoso house, cargado de energia. muchas variaciones en los temas, me encantan las vocales un estilo unico muy marcado

This album will always have a special place in my heart. Part of it is definitely nostalgia, but the other part is that the music has aged pretty well and is still fun to listen to even 25 years later. When this album came out, I was getting into a lot of house and speed garage. When I played this for the first time, it was so much different from all the DJ mixtapes I had at the time. This was the album that really exposed me to UK-style garage and house music.

bello elettronico

this is so fresh despite being 26 years old. favorite tracks included yo yo, jump n shout, bingo bango. was five stars until gemilude when it slowed down and became less my taste

It was really good. There was a one song that was a small time hit I remember. I'd listen again.

Very good album. Yet another example of why we should have half stars. Very good 90s-era house album that shows its age but holds up fairly well. 3.5 stars.

Oh man, I was excited to see this come up. I grew up with Basement Jaxx music, and Red Alert is a defining song of my childhood. This was an era before I collected or listened to music in album form (I was but a wee child), just what was on the TV and radio, so I had a squizz at the tracklist to see if I knew any - as there is an even more defining and iconic Basement Jaxx song for me, Take Me Back To Your House - and was happy to see I saw one. I knew i'd enjoy this album, and I did. I was surprised to see the low rating on here, however I shouldn't be as the 1001 albums project is a magnet for pretentious knobs whose singular idea of what is "good" music is always "has instrument, not female, not on radio". They listen to these things once and since it challenges their tastes and disrupts their comfortable position for jerking themselves off over the flimsy and predictable opinions they've gravely mistaken for having a personality, they dislike it. Oh no, I'm not being force-fed a melody and there's samples and it's, it's - *gasp* - popular!!!! Thank god we're not crowd-sourcing 1001 albums for this list or we'd end up with one of those "average human face" situations. Not liking this album is valid, as with any, and you can't really argue taste, but I scrolled through the reviews and didn't actually see a single valid reason, it was all just "it's noise!!! it belongs in a club!!! it's dated!!!" - basically, it's different. I can't criticise too much, as I've hated albums for fairly superficial reasons too, but not because I simply look down on them from a false position of superiority. Hard to find a review on here that doesn't drip with elitism. After all, this album charted high and was reviewed extremely well. That should say it all. Obviously, I loved it. I enjoyed the various samples and heavy, active production. There is a lot going on and every song is very distinct, a taste of entirely different genres (funk, reggae, latin...). Basement Jaxx always make very "alive" music with a lot going on, playful and a little... boisterous? It's a distinct style. Red Alert is a huge song, comes right at you. I enjoyed the interludes too, I think of interludes as a more modern thing (don't come for me, i'm sure it's not) so it was cool to see them here, and integrated so well. Same Old Show is a great track but the moaning is definitely... a lot. Most / Least Favourite Track(s): Yo Yo + Don't Give Up, Red Alert would be my favourite if it didn't make me think my devices were lagging every time it starts playing / U Can't Stop Me, grates on my ears a little. Rating: 4, maybe edging a bit over.

EDM that would be fun to listen to in a different stat of mind

Perfect background music for cleaning the shit outta my kitchen. 🧹

7/10.

wait this is so fun

Am in a good mood. Might give this four stars. Sounds like the perfect album for a late night drive or to listen to in the background. + Rendez-Vu + Red Alert + Same Old Show (kinda scared me a little, but it's got something) + Bingo Bango + Stop 4 Love + Being With U

I have no idea what this is or where it came from. It's from a scene of music I know very little about and seems generally pretty niche. Hoping to learn a thing or two underway, but have no idea what to expect. Rendez-Vu This is very strange. I have no idea what this is for. The electronic beat is pretty repetitive, never seeming to change up the energy much. Don't really like the vocal effects. The acoustic guitar sample is a decent addition. When the beat drops the track is kinda dancable, but not as infectious as it might want to be. Fine. 3/5 Yo Yo The awful vocal effect is back. Clubby, dancy beat. Nice distortion. The noisy background effects are pretty cool. Decent. 3.5/5 Jump 'N Shout Definitely a dance track. The rapping goes very well over the beat. Groovy and fun. Works for what it is. Decent. 3.5/5 U Can't Stop Me That vocal is very dated, doesn't sound very good over the beat. Love the deeper bass sound. I like the contrasting harsher vocals in the background. The main vocal grew on me a bit throughout the track, just needed some time to adjust. Found it pretty interesting actually. Complete 180. Great. 4.5/5 Jaxxalude Rhythmic interlude. Feels like a belated introduction. Red Alert Clever intro. Very bouncy beat, lovely bass. Catchy dancable tune, feels very retro but in a fun throwback way. Really fun vocal. The track paces itself excellently, switching itself up and drives the beat through. Banger. 5/5 Jazzalude Mirrors the previous interlude quite well. Always Be There Deeper, more liquid production. Has a dark moody vibe to it. I really like how layered and effect-laden it is. Really interesting arrangement. Love the synthy outro. Enjoyed that quite a lot. 5/5 Sneakalude Yep Same Old Show Has a nice groove, but repeats itself for a bit too long. A bit boring, has some interesting vocal samples, and definitely picks up towards the end, but didn't exactly click for me. Was kinda annoyed by it in the end. Average. 2.5/5 Bingo Bango Am I wrong for immediately thinking FIFA World Cup vibes? Good groove. I like the jazzy piano and the blasting horns. Not the most thought provoking thing in the world, but could definitely see myself returning to this. Fun, charismatic, dancable. Great. 4.5/5 Gemilude Another one. I like the vocal. Has plenty of charisma for the short snippet we got. Stop 4 Love Feels really slick. Love the seriousness of the production. Really mellow. Has some pretty beautiful passages throughout. Good. 4/5 Don't Give Up Abrasive sound. Not sure if I like it or I hate it. Noise heavy, lacking in any real rhythm or groove. I appreciate the experimental nature of the track. Feels alluring and dark. The vocals add a lot to the ominous atmosphere. Stunning production. Great. 4.5/5 Being With U Love the contrast between sweet vocals and the heavy dark synths. The snaps work surprisingly well. Very pleasant. Works as a closer. Decent. 3.5/5 Never been one for dance music, especially not the clubby house kind where the main intention behind it is to get you to wave around drunkly on a dancefloor. For some reason I found myself having a surprisingly good time with this. Sometimes you need something that isn't all that deep, something where you can put your critical mindset on the shelf and just have a good time. I feel this achieved that for me pretty successfully. Is it corny, a bit vapid and perhaps a bit dated at times? Perhaps it is, but all in all it provides a perfectly acceptable piece of escapism with dancable electronic beats, fun hooks and a lot of personality. If you're in for a deep analytical listen this is not the album for you. For diversity's sake the list needs a few albums like this that showcases different scenes with music for different purposes. Of course there are days where I'd rather have an album I can pick apart each nuance from and really dive deep into each minor detail, but sometimes simple is also good. I had a lot of fun with this one, seems an accessible introduction to late '90s dance music. 3.5/5, leaning towards 4/5 Fave track. Red Alert Least fave track. Same Old Show

There is some nostalgia here for me for sure but I legit think this is an ‘all-time’ type record. Their next one ‘Rooty’ might be better probably, but this one is definitely the one that ‘broke’ them and their ‘sound’ and made them stars. I like to think of them as like the British counterpart to Bran Van (who you know I also love to death) - they are just ready to pull in elements and sounds from ANYWHERE and float them over a big beat and somehow make it work. Like this opening track is a 2-chord acoustic guitar riff… that’s actually pretty much the base of the song. Add a big beat, swing the EQ faders around a bunch, layer on all the electronic elements, cool melody/vocal effects… simple but great. There are a couple of tracks that are a bit 'meh' - like not bad but just a bit uninteresting... close to a 5 but not quite.