Reviews (page 6 of 8)
I really liked it. Once again, we need half stars. 3.5 would be my pick here, but I’ll go with 4 stars because I think It’s better than fine.
Not really into EDM
Listen to Snapper (NZ) instead. This is nothing.
It’s “okay” for me. But it’s kind of like a watered down version of music that I enjoy much more. I don’t agree that this is something I need to hear before I die
Some nice sounds and beats but I didn't really connect with this. I bet it's the sort of thing where you had to be there.
An interesting direction/choice for this project, I must say. I'd never heard of Red Snapper before, and they're definitely a huge contrast to many of the other albums and bands in the collection. Just given the nature of their style(s), it's a little hard not to treat the album as good/fun background music, but even so I enjoyed the experience. Kind of a distinctive mashup of bands like Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers, and others. I particularly enjoyed Karime Kendra's contributions in "Shellback" and "The rough and the quick"; I feel like the band-only/instrumental-only songs weren't able to hold my attention as much (except the last track, "They're hanging me tonight", suitably creepy and atmospheric). It's a shame that there's so little information on the band or this album in both Wikipedia and even the entry in the "1001 albums" book (at least the 2005 edition). I don't know if that's intentional, or simply reflects that their fans aren't all that interested in providing a presence in those venues.
in Shell Back is the woman repeating "she's gonna get me like cheese barn"? asking for a friend. The entire album made me feel a little nauseated.
There are moments on this that could work decently as a soundtrack to a movie or TV show. As music to just listen to there are none. It's boring. It just kind of exists. I knew a guy in college who fucked around on his computer making music like this. I hated when he had me listen to it. He's in sales and marketing now.
There must be loads of great albums I've never heard of, and I thought this list would provide. Instead, we get this. Occasionally chill, mostly generic and lazy. Dated. The kind of album a pseudo-cool posh kid at uni in 2000 would have been into.
The album is largely hit or miss, and then it becomes a lot more miss. Aside from the two songs below, it's all kind of same-ish and forgettable with brief moments of musical clarity. I like the vibes and the idea behind the songs/album had a little bit or promise, but it just ends up falling pretty flat for me. Favorite Song(s): Shellback, Belladonna
Not really a fan of this. For an "instrumental" album, there was a lot of repetitive singing. 2/5
Good dark breakbeat
this was not good.
Lofi hip-hop beats to break your mute button
i have beef w/ whoever wrote this book
not my kind of music
La vaina ta cool pero la vaina ta rara. Es un álbum pa samples no pa escuchar.
Me parecio increibel ese mix de jazz con acoustics que la banda tiene, lei que tienen más música chida así que los seguire escuchando. Would love to hear them live. It's a 10/10 for me. Amazing melodies, creative, fun, overall a amazing listen. Sumamente repetible.
first listen every song on this record is cinematic, but somehow overall it's not interesting enough
It's never a good sign when there is barely a Wikipedia page for an album. Usually it means the album is hard to find or the fans of the band aren't passionate enough to spend time on one. In a shocking twist of events, this is a group from London, England. I know, I know, try to contain your shock that an English group is given deference in this book. I have gotten a lot of these electronica, instrumental groups of late. It's not that I think it is bad music but it is not down my alley and a lot of it sounds very similar to me. I can't figure out what this group is doing differently from all the other instrumental electronica groups in the book.
Very generic album with a relaxing atmosphere for the most part. Not terrible but not particularly good either. Not sure why it's on this list.
No idea who this is. Opening track has a great groove. Ok. I really like this album. To the point where I want to tell everyone about it. This is a great album.
Like rap without the rapping
I didn't find it particularly engaging but I did love "I stole your car"
A creative, surprising fusion of trip hop, acid jazz, club beats, electronica, and ambient, this is a remarkable, surprising, genre-bending, work that has instantly caught my attention (listened through twice) and will become a favorite repeat listen. Cool funky beats and sounds throughout. Compositions are varied and no two tracks are alike, so listening in its entirety is a fun, adventurous journey. Perfect for a trippy headphone experience, but also would make a great background soundtrack for driving, working out, or just hanging out and chilling with friends. Never heard of Red Snapper before this but will definitely be dipping into their catalogue as a result of this discovery. 25 albums into this project, this is my first true "find" on this list...precisely why I signed up. Keep them coming! Great stuff!
Honestly, when I started listening, I figured it was a DJ in the vein of DJ Shadow. I was surprised to find it was a whole acid jazz band. Makes for a more interesting listen knowing that, though I feel like the latter half of the album feels a bit more like that than a DJ. I don't think it's anything mind-blowing, but it's solid enough. Favorite tracks: "Belladonna", "Keeping Pigs Together", "They're Hanging Me Tonight"
Not for me
I would thrive at a rave.
Was pleasantly surprised - like them a lot!!
Our Aim Is To Satisfy is more electronic stuff but a more chill vibe, just ultimately quite boring and not as skilled as someone like Massive Attack. I didn't need to hear this before I die. 2.
Doesn't benefit from coming the day after the Chemical Brothers - this is not trying to do exactly the same thing but does it in a similar way and sounds very lightweight in comparison. We've had much better, call it a 2 and on to tomorrow.
A little tedious to be honest
This sucked.
Instrumental stuff just isn't my vibe.
Quite atmospheric but nothing overly standout, and a weak start.
Acid Jazz und Trip-Hop. Nun gut.
Put this off for a few days, just didn't have it in me for an hour of unknown electronic music. I ended up liking this more than I thought I would after my initial impression, but it's not for me and is entirely too long. I'm sure plenty of people out there dig it though.
Perhaps I'm being over critical but I think some mixing decisions let this down, it feels quite abrasive after a while.
I feel like heard all the instrumentals as the menu music of a PS2 game. It's not quite a 1 because it's not awful but it's definitely a weak 2.
I did like this - but mostly as a background soundtrack.
I'd argue that no one has ever heard of this band or album before. What gives with that?
I totally enjoyed this. I have a bit of a black hole for early 2000s music and glad to have this list filling the void. Somehow in my history of listening to Red Snapper I had not listened to this one and I have it on good authority that Making Bones is even better so I think I'll queue that one up next. Faves. Keeping Pigs Together and Shellback.
Dimery, you schmuck - how dare you pick this over "Making Bones"! There have been plenty of instances of the list ignoring a band's most popular release and going for their earlier stuff instead - The Dandy Warhols and Massive Attack being two recent egregious examples I've encountered - and he really shoulda done the same here, too. This album is still pretty good, but it doesn't sound as cohesive as "Making Bones", and it doesn't make nearly as good a use of MC Det - he absolutely kicks ass on the other album, but here he gets a novelty sound-effect-sounding track with "The Rake". 😒 Fave tracks - "Keeping Pigs Together" and "They're Hanging Me Tonight" have that moody cinematic feel I love these guys for...
Not entirely sure what the point of that was. Pretty poor trip hop album given the quality that was getting released around a similar time. Belladonna the only track that made me feel anything. Anything at all. 2.5*
Disappointingly dull.
3.3 stars rounded down.
Nothing offense about it, but nothing that I love either. I will give it a 3 because I don't really know what is considered good music in this genre. It didn't hurt my ears, I didn't want to turn it off, but I could have walked away and not felt like I missed anything important.
This was a fine enough listen. Good chill Sunday vibes. Nothing really wowed me, but it was pleasant.
That's like 8th British electronic music album in the last 40 albums on the list for me. From said eight, one was good. It wasn't this one.
That was great. How haven't I heard this before?
pretty groovy, i could dance to this.
Somewhat enjoyable, in certain moods I could even see myself revisiting this one. High 2.
mostly mix of disinterested instrumentals. Alaska Street was the only one I really liked.
This was great. If I ever run a bar in a sci fi then I'll have this on the play list.
This didn’t leave much of an impression, was fine though.
I was surprised at how much I liked their instrumentals, daring and imaginative.
I dont hate it, but I wouldnt say that I'm satisfied by it. Not a terrible album, but a lot like everything else coming out of clubs in the UK in 2000. Ultimately not anything anyone should have to hear, and entirely forgettable. 2/5
Awful electronic shit, god knows why this was in this list so many better albums of this genre from around this time
I've been looking for some good trip hop
Need further listen really
Oddly enjoyed this. Definitely eclectic but kind of late night car music
Massive Attack but without everything that makes Massive Attack good.
Je suis pas sûre??
Yeah decent listen!! Some nice car chase music vibes but a bit more chill for the most part !! :D
Let the review bombing commence!
Not my genre, but can work as background music
Dark, brooding, futuristic. Lots of shades of sampling and soundscaping that belong to the realm of El-P, DJ Shadow, or Deltron. Tracks consistently evolve into something more interesting than their starting point, but in a way that feels completely natural. Listened to: walking through Prospect Park. Favorite tracks: Keeping Pigs Together, The Rough and The Quick
Did not enjoy
Amazing variety of different sounds. Remind me a bit of Radiohead, albeit with less interesting lyrics.
It’s hilarious that the Wikipedia article just states that the album is on the list… Nothing else about it. I enjoyed this, appreciated it more knowing the artist uses more live instrumentals and not only electronic.
1.5/5
Average electronic album. Enjoyable but forgettable.
I now understand how this album has a cult online critic following. I’m a sucker for this era of electronica that sits between Trip-Hop and French House where that transition is evident in the music itself. This is a good, chilled out album filled with a lot of that sound, elevated by some veryyyy impressive acoustic drum sounds. I think it’s intriguing to know this band is a legitimately band in the traditional sense, although it doesn’t sound essential to the music’s composition to my ears. It really has everything I could want from it: a couple stand out tracks I’ll add to playlists, a handful of high-energy dance songs, a few cuts with vocals to not make it sound monotonous and only instrumental, and some solid filler songs that round out and enhance the album when listened to as a single unit. It ends a bit weak and the jazz ventures aren’t all that rewarding, but those aren’t overbearing critiques imo A very solid late night driving album. Good for fans of a niche within a niche, which applies to me. Not a favorite, but still a standout.
Все треки можно поделить на 2 части -- без слов и со словами. Без слов, ака эмбиент, хорош -- в особенности первый и последний треки, но все, что со словами, полное говно. Несмотря на это, эмбиента достаточно для 4.
Need to listen
I decided after one listen that I had to give this another listen, and I found the second listen interesting, so it meets my basic requirement for a four rating i.e. interesting enough to require a second listen, and still interesting after the second listen. It does have some rather filthy lyrics, in places, but the musicianship is good, and there's a nice swing to many of the tunes.
Not for me. Honestly don't understand why this is on this list. Overall I'd say it was boring and uninteresting.
Interresting nice sound constructions. Does not hurt, does not alarm. In my mind: no music at all. from this point of view 1 Point, because 0 is not possible.
I saw the “electronica” genre designation on this and cringed. I haven’t enjoyed many of the electronica selections on this list, but this one was a bit different. It leans heavily into a trip hop vibe. The acoustic drums really make the album. It then goes off into like an interesting dub/ambient sound with the last 3 tracks. The only real complaint I have about this album (besides the overall length, should be about 15 mins shorter) is some of the vocal samples were really cringe.
New one for me. Funky triphop stuff
bit of a nostalgia bomb for me. doesn't quite live up to the memory though
I’m 3.5% cooler having listened to this. 3.5 stars.
Fuck no
An amalgamation of a variety of sounds with instrumentals that strive to be Portishead. Standouts are Keeping The Pigs Together, and Belladonna.
This album is what David Holmes' "Let's Get Killed" album wishes it was. Intricate but riveting instrumentals that actually catch interest and hold it. That being said, I wouldn't necessarily seek this album out again, but it held my attention for the most part and was decent.
Unfortunately, cool drum rhythms does not good music make.
went into this apprehensive; came out having enjoyed most of it. Great album.
This is bad. Absolutely nothing redeeming about this whatsoever. Every track is far too long and tedious. You know when a beat or a vocal line is repeated so often it becomes grating? And you start to questions your life choices and your sanity? This is where this album lives
Was enjoying this fine, very of it's time that it is, as a decent background electronica to work to with that turn of the century big beat sound, Propellorheads etc. Then it really lost me at track 5 and 6 when it sped up and went shit. At it's best when it makes most use of the acoustics such as the double bass. Very odd choice, never heard of this lot then or since. Not essential.
keeping pigs together the rough and the quick i stole your car alaska street
I had Jack and Cal help me rate this and they actually gave it rave reviews.
LOL Jack and Cal!! I loved the first track. I think this record would be excellent listened to through super expensive headphones while tripping. But I have neither the headphones nor substances upon which to trip. Still, I will keep this in mind in case my circumstances change.
Started off strong then drifted into being fairly average.
Weird music style but I liked Don't Go Nowhere.
Keeping pigs together is a solid slightly dark vibe that sounds like the album cover looks. Sadly a lot of the album sounds like the chemical brother's c-sides, they lack that 'thing' that elevates them above background music. I feel like if you cut out songs 3-7 you'd have a very solid 30-minute album but the middle just sorta drags. I was thinking of giving the album a 3 but the thematic transition that happens after I stole Your Car changed my mind, the last 3 songs sound like they could've come out of a different album entirely.
This was pretty funky. Nothing too spectacular but i enjoyed myself. This is probably more preferable as background music than anything else for me
not quite my cup of tea.
i rlly fw this
sub
This is awesome, would listen on my own time. Not one of the greats, but I'd give it the 5 on honor of being repeatable, enjoyable, and my thing.
It started strong. Chill electronica. Wasn't a huge fan of the 3rd track but I get the suggestions of sounding like Massive Attack. Next track got back on the groove motif. This would be a good album to have on a long road trip, especially driving an empty highway at night. I think I'm satisfied.
The perfect soundtrack to observe and absorb the urban sprawl from the train window.
odd choice... when the album's only claim to fame is being on this list, doesn't really add up. Not bad though, just doesn't belong on the list.
Weird, trippy, funky
Another album where the average rating is far too low in my opinion. Apparently I love the electronic industrial stuff far more than most. And I didn’t think I did! Anyway I listened to this twice through on my drive today just drifting along to the music. It’s very good! 4/5
Pretty good
I appreciate what this album was aiming for and at times it was an interesting listen. Overall though I just don't think this is a genre for me. I don't plan on coming back to this band or album.
The worst thing art can do is fail to produce an emotion from it. I went into this album with hope that it would be a fun electronic/dnb record. What I was left with was a deflating sense of fun as none of the songs did anything for me. It all felt like it's been done before and better. My rating might not represent the musical skill of the album but my experience coming away from it. Entirely forgettable.
Interesting
This album rips. Never knew anything about this album before but clear that this ensemble plays with a lot of groove and impact while integrating traditional methods and technology. I'll be digging into their catalogue and given their unrelenting experimentation with instruments and genre, no doubt I'll be enjoying every bit of it.
I haven't been the biggest fan of electronica from this list, but I think this might be the best non-Daft Punk electronica album I've heard so far. This actually had some variety of grooves I could get into instead of the endless repetition that seems to typically plague the genre. I did get the feeling that the album overstayed its welcome by the end, but overall I found myself enjoying it.
a bit of its time, was probably round about bang on in 2000 but missed it then
Some ok stuff and some great, funky stuff. I liked the last handful of songs a lot.
You know an album is influential when the Wikipedia article is three sentences long, one of them being about how it's included on this list. Well, I guess it's satisfactory background noise. Nothing more, nothing less. Who cares. A perfect 5/10.
Favorite Tracks: Shellback The Rough And The Quick
Background music
This was cool! I had never heard of this band. Definitely would have been listening to this in 2000 if I had known about them. From the description I read, I was expecting something more like the band Galactic. But this doesn’t quite fit that mould. Very very cool.
Acid jazz/trip hop. A funky, jazzy, hop hoppy album. Not the same kind of trip hop found in Dummy by Portishead, this album does not have the same atmospheres and soundscapes. It's much more rock inspired. A lot like the Moby album, each song kind of had it's own vibe, didn't really feel like they flowed super well into each other all the time. But they were all unique and fun to listen to. My major gripe is with the length. nearly an hour long and only 3/11 songs were shorter than 5 minutes. I just don't think there was quite enough going on in each song for it to justify being that long. It would serve for good background music, not so easy for active listening. I would revisit to put in the back while playing a game or something. 4/5
2.5/5
Liked it quite a bit more than I expected, given how some of the seemingly random british albums that get put on this list are. While some songs could definitely be trimmed, and I never found any of the vocals appealing, this album does the good thing of putting the very best tracks right at the start and the end. The opener pulls you in, and then the last two tracks are just fantastic, incredible atmosphere.
its surprising how much i enjoyed this. I’m a little hit or miss on electronic
I appreciate this album being far less poorly aged than a lot of other albums from the time, as it has a lot of effects that feel more graceful(?) than even effects from half a decade prior, and the slow leaning away from electronica near the end of the album makes it stand out all the more as a careful blend of genres. Its still relatively boring like a lot of its contemporaries, far too long, and the vocal tracks are just bad for the most part, but when this album lays its cards out it can be a good time. Just have to have a lot of patience to get there.
Enjoyable trip-hop/electronica
not for me.
This is a “must”?
Geggjað stuff ...
Not bad, but also nothing on here was really compelling to me. I looked up this group and was surprised to find it's three dudes playing instruments and not just producers making beats digitally.
Ironic title. Not much to say about it on Wiki. When I Wiki’d the band it said they had a ‘compilation of unreleased and rare Red Snapper tracks’. Can a band have rare tracks if no one’s heard of them? I’m listening to the first song…drugs might help its enjoyment. But I don’t have any. I guess when you have a list of 1001 something, you can cast the net pretty wide. I must say this exercise is exposing me to many different artists and styles of which I was unaware. This is an album I’d want to tell my music friends “Oh my gosh I just heard the greatest album! You have to listen to it.” And then play it for them and while I’m extolling its virtues, watch their faces.
so.. this was mainly instrumental, but listening to a whole album that sounds like the intense movie chasing scene background music that you used to get in the early 2000s is a bit too much, so I didn't really enjoy it, but at the same time, it wasn't THAT bad to rate it 1 star... and the songs that weren't chasing scenes, it was super annoyingly repetitive, saying the exact same things over and over again. The one song that started off nice and peacefully "Alaska Street" had some super annoying sounds throughout the song towards the middle of the song.
I should know about this as I was 18 and in the UK when this came out, I loved music around this area but I've never heard of this. I have no idea how this made the list, it's fine for a genre that I do enjoy but it's not good. It made me want to listen to propellerheads, chemical Brothers and massive attack, not listen again.
Really confused how this one made the list
Lots of cools sounds, a little repetitive. Last song is the best
This was in my wheelhouse in the early 2000's, but shouldn't be on this list.
it was good. It was ambient music and good ambient music. The songs were long and it got a little boring though.
I generally like trip-hop, and acid jazz, when I hear it, but have never spent any time diving into it. Thought I would like this a little more than I did. Fine background music. Some tracks pretty interesting to listen to, yet others are a bit too repetitive. So probably a 3.5/4 here, but of course I can't rate it that.
Not for me
I went into this blind, not knowing what genre to expect. I just sensed I'd enjoy it. Charged trip hop -- the moment for it may have passed, but I appreciate this surprising acoustic talent. I was tempted to remove one star for sounding like a copy of Massive Attack, but no. Red Snapper is almost better, their instruments more organic. I just wish there was more variety in the tracks, more ambient. They're capable of more. Maybe even just a different track order -- the last three are beautiful. I can see why this was released on Warped. 5 stars to boost the average rating. Y'all don't know shit about electronica.
better than i was expecting! 3.5
pretty good weird background music
Kinda cool, very weird
Quite a diverting collection of largely instrumentals. Particularly liked Some Kind of Kink's borrowing of the riff from Rock On. Some strong similarities with Massive Attack, but just lacking a bit of menace.
Damn, after Amy and Al, you gave me this? Yea, not for me and not going to re-listen.
2 Oh God, another 60-minute instrumental electronic album. I thought the first track, Keeping the Pig Together, was actually pretty good and felt promising for the rest of the listen, but it very quickly gets incredibly same-y and repetitive from there. There is one thing in particular that stood out to me, and that’s that this album sounds just like the São Paulo Confessions album we had from that dude Suba, even down to the album art looking incredibly similar. That album came out just a year prior, so maybe Red Snapper were heavily influenced by it, but I found it to be pretty unremarkable as well, so these guys clearly didn't do much to evolve the sound if so. If anything, Suba’s album at least had video game vibes and to my knowledge never had any explicit descriptions of oral sex, so I’m going to give the guy the edge here. I suppose this was okay as background music while working, but not the kind of thing I would go out of my way to listen to again. Your aim was not met, Red Snapper.
Pour info je n'ai toujours pas confirmé à Robert ma présence ou non à la soirée des 1089 albums et je me réserve toujours le droit de rester chez moi.
Un album qui risque fort bien de provoquer la fureur de mon camarade d'écoute robcuillère.
Track 7 absolutely beautiful. Until then a bit one noted to me. Very groovy but not detailed. Track 9 great too. The End of it much better than the start! Another point better infact! It would be a 2 1/2, but unfortunately I would have to give a 2
OK, some nice grooves here and there, but in general quite boring, and a lot of weird alectronics that might have sounded cool for a clubbing audience some time back in the 90’s, but not really long lasting
Terrible! Awful! Unlistenable!
I really liked this. It is good working/driving music.
Good jazz fusion band.
Gear: Hifiman Arya Mix: funky, Trip-Hoppy Bass (insb. bei "Shellback", "Don't Go Nowhere") und ordentlich kickende Drums ("Keeping Pigs Together") auf diesem besonders analogen Elektro-Album 🆒 Musik: ist von mir schon "Some Kind Of Kink" Wertung: 🥁🥁🥁(🥁)/5
Pretty boring electronic music, though the final track was cool. Stand-out: They're Hanging Me Tonight
Liked it more than I thought I would. Especially the songs with Karime Kendra singing. Did catch some Massive Attack vibes albeit more uptempo. I'll revisit this one again.
Moody, mostly anxious, but, in one notable case, sexy, electronica. I should like it but the vibe is a little too weird art house horror movie for my taste. Also boring. It isn't terrible but I don't think I *had* to listen to it.
I’d give this one a 3.5
Red Snapper fueron pioneros en llevar los sintetizadores a terrenos donde nunca antes habían estado. Su fusión de la música electrónica con el hip-hop les puso a la vanguardia del estilo trip-hop con temas como "The Rake", a ritmo de beatbox-funk. En este disco la electrónica está trufada de dub, soul-jazz ("Bussing" o "Belladonna), música disco ("The Rough And The Quick"), big-beat e incluso hard rock.
A touch of David Gray - but that's probably just the drum machines! Not bad, but a bit tooo electronica Bit of hip-hop/ funk thrown in. And quite a few random noises too. Not into any of the above genres. Overall it's a 2. (That's actually better than a 1!)
wasn't monotonous. not sure what to think. I can see it being influential but I never have to hear it again.
Not really my style but it wasn't bad
Decent. Some I really liked and other tracks I could not get into. Overall, ok.
had zero idea of what to expect. really felt like a crazy mixed bag. wish i could give it 2.5
whenever the album has a quirky name and a small amount of streams you know it'll be fire, I loved this
Okaaayyy, was not expecting the explicit lyrics, but definitely appreciated it. Unfortunately, instrumental heavy electronic music is still not my preferred choice. Respect the work, but didn't love it for myself.
Pues ni fu ni fa, bien de fondo pero a veces tiene unos ritmos medio locos
Eclectic mix, good electronic music from the early oughts, a la Chemical Bros. 4/5
this is very mid 2000's video game to me somehow. really good music to put in the background while working, i like it.
First time hearing of this band and album. While not usually something I would listen to, this was pretty good
This band is too talented to be making such bad music. The drummer is so dynamic. The bassist is soulful and interesting. But this music is difficult to even get through. They write a funky groove and then ruin it by singing about something insane like licking and spitting. Please stop singing about licking and spitting. Some really interesting grooves that just didn’t go anywhere. I did not like this
3/5
New to me. Kind of modest jazz with electinuca ans years. It hels my attention and reminded me of recent Floating Points.
This is music I could clean my house to
Definitely enjoyed this album, didn't know anything about this going in which was cool. There's a lot going on here but it really works. Highlight tracks: "The Rake", "Bussing", "I Stole Your Car", "Alaska Street" (problably half the album at this rate)
Instrumental. Little rap
emblematic of 2000s techno and yet still thematically all over the place. derivative and boring.
Cool and atmospheric, at times sounding like early 2000s hacker music and others building soundscapes with soft backbeats. Very much enjoyed this after not having heard this group. Excellent music to walk or work to during the day.
could’ve done without all the uninspired hip hop and voice samples
Dynamic and at times kinetic, and more club-funky than full-on jam funky. Some cool-ish grooves and moods are set (e.g., "Don't Go Nowhere," "Bussing," "Belladonna") though, as with one's memories of this period, the more one thinks about them, the less sense they all make and the more one thinks "what was so great about that time anyway?" They bordeline overstuff the styles (one kept waiting for the trip-hop to take over entire, but then the skanky enought ska-ish bits were a nice surprise). The melange mostly works because of the strong rhythm and a willingness to let things play out and not to do it all at once. It's safe to say it's aged better than a lot of from the era of excessive breakbeats. Maybe one likes more than Massive Attack, but one doesn't feel too much inspired to spend too much time sussing those nuances.
Love the funky beats, multi genres
Never heard of this group. It did not kill me to listen to this, but will never probably pull up again. Favorite was Some kind of Kink. One of the worst songs I have heard yet was The Rough and the Quick.
I feel like perhaps I've been too generous in the past, especially with electronic music. I don't know why but this is the straw that broke the camel's back. This is the first 1 star review I'm giving out. I know I've been to generous in the past and if it wasn't something I liked I would just rate it 3 stars saying it wasn't for me. But this is a bridge too far. I really didn't like this. It wasn't for me. I don't know who this is for. It was boring and repetitive. It maybe even is a little better than some of the other electronic albums that I rated earlier because it does every so often do something a little bit different... But barely, and not good enough. So I guess I'm changing the way I rate things maybe.
I was interested on where this album was going after the first song, but it fell off significantly as it went on.
Supprising album. Catchy, funky, electronic.
Surprisingly generic turn of the millennium beats, is this really something that worth listening to? Something worth recommending that someone listen to? I'm honestly not sure it is...
I concur
when its good its reaaally good but so many of the songs just have so many weird design choices that I cant give it a 4
Ibiza hotel background Muzak like you would hear by the pool. Suit the trendy euro travellers who don’t need to stress out by knowing the lyrics
Did I just listen to the soundtrack of a heist movie?
3.5
Eh.
This one was on the verge of being a victim of the previous album I heard (that Sabres Of Paradise) because I was not able to distinguish them at first but it changed with that Shellback track. This is much more trip hoppy and more interesting. It’s also 20 minutes shorter.
In the final 100 album stretch of the project and they saved all the poorly-aged triphop club music for last it seems. This one at least manages to bring some interesting vox and synth timbres into play, but at the end of the day, it still rushes by in a forgettable whirl of standard 90s drum machine presets.
Not for me. Noisy and random. A couple fun tracks.
Amazing electronic music with hints of royksopp, sibot, BoC, so many others
Första låten är ju kanon. Resten är inte kanon.
Gaebage
solid electronic album that takes A LOT from earlier rock - 8/10
"The Rough and the Quick" was one of those songs that made me listen to the lyrics not because they were profound but it was unexpected. The song was a bit to repetitive but I guess the ol' in out in out is as well. Art imitating life perhaps? Good tracks - Keeping Pigs Together - Bussing
There was nothing I could see that justified this being on the list
This wasn't bad. But I was bored. And it was super repetitive. Which I didn't like.
:(
HL: “Bussing”, “I Stole Your Car”, "Belladonna", “Shellback”, “Keeping Pigs Together” gonna give you like 3 stars gonna give you like 3 stars gonna give you like 3 stars White jazz, English electronica & hip hop combine Mildly frustrating experience, as about halfway through the album, the sound changed to something I wanted to listen to a lot more than the first half. Yet on the heels of “Rough and the Quick” & the annoying robot vocals in “Rake”, the switch to ambient strings and guitar feedback felt like I was suddenly listening to a different artist.
Matrix vibes. Interestin.
Sounds like the 90s.
Time and place may have made this more popular than I can perceive at the moment. Not my thing!
Man this is so 2000s. I generally like this electronic style, and it was refreshing to hit on a new genre on this playlist. Sounds like something my older cousins would have listened to growing up. Overall, most trscks were hit or miss for me, I liked Keeping Pigs Together and Don't Go Nowhere the most.
Lush, Atmospheric, Monotonous, Mediocre
2.7
Comienza muy bien. Luego un poco rollo. Y termina muy bien. Venga, un 4.
what the is this album doing here? where is the description? what made it notable? it's like a movie soundtrack. fine i guess probably good study music.
Fantastic! Finally an album, I’d never listened to by a band I’ve never heard of! I’ve really been into electronic chill music lately, so this was perfect.
Good funky club music in the same world as Groove Armada, Basement Jaxx and Fatboy Slim.
So so…
Excellent cure for insomnia, but a rubbish album
Was never in my radar but surprisingly good album
Tämä oli hyvä kuuntelukerta, sillä varmaan kaikki virheet tältä kevyeltä tunnin albumilta katoaa kun puoliuninen kriitikko välttyy Hörähtämästä artistivirheisiin ja kuorsaus jatkuu.. Tosin objektia ei uinu pois.. Toki olin hieman yllättynyt, kun biisien nimet katsoi albumin lopuksi... ei tunne oman tuntemuksensa kanssa noikein tuota tuntunut pitävän paikkaansa. Sen jälkeen huomasi muutaman reviewin joka valitteli oudosta lyriikasta.. kuudennessa kappaleessa.. Tämä ei ollut hyvä alku....... "I just wasn’t expecting something so explicit and couched in zero metaphor" "the time I got to the sixth track, “The Rough and the Quick” and heard Karime Kendra sing “IWANTTHEKINDOFNIGHTTHATIREADABOUT. If Red Snapper’s aim was to satisfy, then consider me unsatisfied." Itse minuakin alkoi harmittamaan vikassa kappaleessa kun kappale uinui vasemman ja oikean kanavan välillä kun joku laiska miksaaja siellä teki temppujaan.. ..korvan tason aika-avaruuspituusero.. Audio cue.. interaural level differences... ja interaural time differences... OSAATTE KÄYTTÄÄ HYVIN.. MUTTA JÄÄ TUO KOLMAS monaural spectral cues.. JOKA ON MEIKÄN LEMPPARI.. nykysin kun tiktokkia selaa menemään niin on nuo kolme kolmesta cuesta hyvin toiminnassaja toimiikin.. jos on suomalainen semiarjalainen pään muoto joka on länsimaalaisessa psykoakustiikan tekeleen.. generalisoidun hrtf perusmallin aika tarkka peilikuva.. vaikka ugrilaiset häpeykset sieltä esiin nousevat... suomalaisen kallon on lyhyt, ylhäältä katsottuna kiilamaisesti.. munamainen... btw monaural spectral cues tarkoittaa periaatteessa sitä että kun ääni tulee eri suunnasta eri pään osat kuten korvalehti ja kallo joka btw ei ole matemaattisen pyöreä.. vaikuttaa äänen ERI TAAJUUKSIIN ERI TAVALLA!!! eli jossain sektorilla - kun pää on tietyssä asennossa ääni lähteesen - voi joku tietty taajuus tai laajempi taajuusalue... vaimentua melko täydellisesti... Tai äänenvoimakkuus kasvaa.. Tietenkin molemmat korvat mitattava erikseen koska sijaitsevat eri kohassa pään ja korvan ja kehon häiriölähteitä.. väliaineita joissa ääni kulkee.. ääni jonka nopeus muuttuu riippuen kulkemastaan väliaineesta... Siinäkin yksi häiriölähde jota mahdoton eristää pois.. Josta päästään... Ehkä annetaan anteeksi tämä asia... Jeesus kerran sanoi.. Amerikkalaisella aksentilla btw.. ei ollu britpop punk huor.. "All righty, but let the one who has never sinn' throw the first stone".... Se on viisi tähteä hyvästä melodian viennistä... sillä ei näillä kappaleilla oikein muuta kuin melodia... kappaleillaa joilla on vahssti tunnetta ja sen tunteen viemisen halukkuutta.. jotain jota artistit pelkäväävät tänään.. kun on helppo pitää yhdessä tunteessa... kappale... silloin kun vältetään obscenityt.. albumilla ei ole rajoja mitä se ei voisi ylittää yksittäisellä askeleella...
For something labeled as acid jazz this wasn’t the auditory assault I expected. It was just another shopping mall electronica album, though. It probably came packaged with the reviewers new 5 disc CD changer.
I'm now very sorry for the albums that have received 1 star from me so far. Because actually I should give this album a negative rating as a result. Which unfortunately doesn't work.
This reminded me of another band or album but I couldn't remember quite what. But I enjoyed it a lot! I liked that the style changed and there were some surprises but overall I thought it was cool and interesting.
This wasn't bad but it did sound like background music for a 00s video game.
This one took a long time for me to start to like. It's not a style of music that I knew much about. Standouts: Some Kind of Kink, Keeping Pigs Together, Shellback 3.5
They did not please me, they did not satisfy me. Their aim sucks.
favourite song: some kind of king least favourite song: shellback started incredibly strongly and very rarely faltered. probably my favourite (mostly) instrumental album ive had so far
Eu não quero chamar de ruim mas nossa viu... Dentro do meu cérebro isso é processado como um monte de barulho sem o menor nexo e não agrada nem um pouco
Reading the reviews I see that this album is like Massive Attack or Chemical Brothers - two bands I've had to listen to and actively hated. So I don't have high hopes for this. But to my surprise, I didn't end up hating this album. I also didn't love it. It's incredibly repetitive. You could trim songs by at least a minute and not notice anything missing. But it's pretty chill, you could put it on in the background for ambience. Not sure it's something you really want to pay attention to though.
It’s not the worst electronica I’ve heard, was generally unobjectionable background music but still not my style. “The Rough and the Quick” had some … interesting lyrics.
Weird robotic noises, not even lyrics. Flume vibes.
Hellish
So repetitive
I just don’t care for this kind of loop-heavy squishy electronica. The beats were solid and a couple songs set a cool mood but mostly I listened to each track for a minute or two and then skipped it when the repetition grated on me.
Going back to this album that I missed. Actually really enjoyed it. Think this kind of music is growing on me. Going to download it to put on as background music in the car.
Keeping Pigs Together - 8/10 Some Kind of Kink - 8/10 Shellback - 8/10 Don't Go Nowhere - 8/10 The Rake - 8/10 The Rough and The Quick - 8/10 Bussing - 9/10 I Stole Your Car - 8.5/10 Alaska Street - 8/10 Belladonna - 8/10 They're Hanging Me Tonight - 8/10 TOTAL - 89.5/110
I think I needed to listen to this louder. Some fine drums, I kinda missed a lot of the rest (noisy kids on car trip...)
Subpar electro DJ stuff, not for me this day.
It's fine, not amazing not terrible. Could be setbreak music. I had a dream last night I was on the rail at a show which was cool then did it twice after. That's a good night. "The rough and the Quick" gets this album an extra star, awww yeah
How has this made the list
Make random noise, repeat, make random noise, repeat. Do this for 5 minutes and call it track 1. Repeat process 10 times and call it an album. Sit back and self gratify yourself for the shitty album you've just created.
מוזיקה טובה!
Never heard if this and kinda like it. Good mix of ambience and electronics for shaking
The first song was quite nice, very 90s trip-hoppish, but I was wandering how the folks at 1001 would’ve picked this over all the other contenders from that era. The following tracks are more unique – the fact that they play actual instruments gives them more options and they bring in vocalists just enough to make it interesting.
I read somewhere that this band is like a revved up Massive Attack, you could also throw in there a chilled out Chemical Brothers. I also got some Portishead vibes from some of the songs sung by the female vocalist. The frenetic drum and beat songs got old fast, but they were saved by the last two chilled out tracks that sound like the Cinematic Orchestra. So my point is that this record is all over the place, some good some bad.
Nah
Good post apocalyptique music, but too dark to my taste
Sounds like music for documentaries
mostly forgettable synth-wave band that attempted to give Lords of Acid a run for their money on a couple of songs.
2000 - Electronic, Ambient Electronic
You missed.
Listened Before? N Judging from the listen counts on Spotify, this one isn't getting many listens overall... it's a good album though. Good mix of electronics and traditional instruments. Good grooves, too. Added to Library: N Songs added to playlist: Keeping Pigs Together
I'd enjoyed their earlier stuff but the addition of repeated vocal samples makes this a really annoying listen. Not fun
I think this is only the 2nd performer/band I had never heard of before, and to my surprise it’s an album made when I was actively seeking and consuming new music. My only frame of reference for this is Massive Attack- it’s not as moody or trippy as they are - and Fatboy Slim, and this is more groovy than that is. It’s not really my thing.
cool cool cool
Yeah yeah yeah
First artist so far I hadn’t heard of! Proper british trip-hop, just like those mad blokes from bristol.
They definitely be jamming The vocal parts are usually annoying especially the horny breakdown on The Rough and The Quick The last 3 tracks are pretty and are standouts 3.5 stars.
Pretty good. Fun instrumentals reminds me of the Prodigy a little bit. Good variety in songs.
Not for me.
What an odd mix of songs , some I was like yeah this is ok others were just bad
Mixed bag, instantly forgettable (on a first listen at least)
Too repetitive to be background music and not my style for active listening
Oh wow, these must be the guys that make all the DVD menu music!
A good time, but really too background to be breathtaking for me.
Impressions: Why is this here? So many other great electronic albums, but why this? Favorite tracks: Shellback Rating: 1/5
Dece
It's a no from me.
Repetitive nonsense. Doesn’t belong on this list. Did not finish the entire album. Would give it 0 if I could.
I know this gets a lot of hate for being kind of repetitive and samey but it's right up my alley. It's got the energy of early Crystal Method but with an additional rock edge that I quite enjoyed. It was damn near perfect GSD background music for my work day.
Wish I was on acid
Was decent - kids even enjoyed it.
Some brilliant parts, some less so. Reckon these guys would be great to see live as there's a lot going on
Really enjoyed this
After listening to Our Aim Is To Satisfy, did Red Snapper satisfy? I will just start this off by saying that this album felt more like a drug trip than the last electronica album I looked at. But that's not a bad thing, In fact i really enjoy a lot of the beats the songs used and i really liked the fast pace of them too. I guess they did satisfy in the end Best Song: Shellback Worst Song: Belladonna
Odd
6/10
I really enjoyed this ! Could be because other albums this week have been quite dire so this was welcome relief ! Easy 3*
Not really my cup of tea.
Not a fan of electronic music like this
The album was unnoteworthy. It was bad but it wasn't good.
Massive Attack nachdem sie gekifft haben / UNFASSBAR geile riffs (bin manchmal etwas an Tom Morello erinnert) / einzigartige Samples, die unter die Haut gehen / innerhalb der Songs manchmal nach hinten raus etwas repititiv. All in all aber ein stimmiges, moody album - 4.25/5
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A mad mashup of styles and genres tied together with driving drum loops and dance grooves. Good, fleeting fun while it lasts though it doesn’t make a major impression. A few melodic numbers are tucked in at the end that I enjoyed.
I really can't say enough how much I love this exact genre. It's like Massive Attack meets Ed Harrison with some noir videogame soundtrack influence too. The downside is that this album starts on such a strong note with "Keeping Pigs Together", and then gets weaker from there. So much so that I'm walking back my first initial statement. That first track is moody, introspective, and intriguing. After that there's tracks that sound a little silly, with things like the distorted robot voices in "The Rake". I feel like I want to like the funk sound that starts to take control after the first few songs and hangs around. I like the almost De La Soul / new jack swing type of sound in "The Rough And The Quick"... BUT, it's just so far from the initial track, and that's what I was set up for!
lowkey a great album to do homework to
An album with a PHENOMENAL opener. What a great song. I was fully ready to be introduced to an album that would be making its way into my favourites. But after that first songs, the album slowly ebbs away into mediocrity. It's not bad, but also not really good nor holding interest. Until the last song. But as an album it really falls short. But that first song though.
Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Keeping pigs together, Don’t go nowhere, Alaska street
I'm sure I'm not the first to make this joke here, but I was really not satisfied while listening to this album. The wiki said it was a more energetic massive attack, which sounds shitty since massive attack is supposed to be slower and trippier, but production-wise it was even more stripped down than the massive attack stuff I've heard. For some reason, I didn't hate this album despite being very annoyed by quite a few of the songs, the rough and the quick being the worst culprit. The only thing that saved the album were a couple decent beats and ambient electronic sounds but even those I'll probably forget by this time tomorrow.
3.5/5
This is one of those under-the-radar albums I had never heard of before and since it is electronica, it's not something I would have seeked out. The album cruises along really without much song structure or format, but of an ambient, instrumental, almost soundtrack quality to it. For me, it was an okay listen, it didn't grab me and pull me in, but at the same time wasn't annoying and I wasn't tempted to turn it off early. I let it play, it served as decent background music and life went on. No more, no less. Essential...no.
I think I like this but it didn't really stick.
A very good trip hop album tho no massive attack.
Decent electronic music. Nice to have in the background.
Incroyable morceau d'intro, Shellback est très bien aussi, très bonne découverte.
Musique électronique un peu quelconque. Je dois dire que ça ne m'a pas laissé une impression très marquante.
What a hidden gem!! One of the best albums I’ve ever heard. Absolutel banger from start to finish. Easily slipped into my top ten albums of all time.
Keeping Pigs Together- 3/5 Some Kind of Kink- 3.6/5 Shellback- 3/5 Don't Go Nowhere- 2.7/5 The Rake- 2.5/5 The Rough and the Quick- 3.4/5 Bussing- 2.9/5 I Stole Your Car- 3.6/5 Alaska Street- 2.3/5 Belladonna- 2.2/5 They're Hanging Me Tonight- 2.8/5 Total- 2.9
The few songs I knew by Red Snapper beforehand - Snapper, The Sleepless - are bouncy, jazzy breakbeat-y things. This is quite different. Heavier. Lot of low end. Rather filmic as well. Quite a few songs sound like they could be used as a soundtrack to one of those scenes in Mission: Impossible where Tom Cruise is underwater and has only a few more seconds to defuse the bomb. I didn't mind having it on in the background but I think I prefer their more playful stuff. 6/10
Fine 🤷🏻♂️ added one or two songs to my library, but not really an album-wide draw for me. I like it, but it’s definitely early days for this kind of music.
Wow, it's been a little bit since I listened to an album this pointless on this list. There's some cool sounds in here, I guess, but for the most part it's just annoying background music. Any time it's not generic, it's cloying. I'd think of more ways to describe how uninteresting I find this album, but that would be putting more effort into this review than they put into making this shit 2/5
A fair few great tracks but a lot of mediocre ones as well. Strong 3
Eh
Trip hop/jazz/funk/electronica all in one and they do it pretty well. 3.5. Not sure what mood I'd have to be in to put this on though.. probably just confused.
This book and electronica, I swear to god. It's like they intentionally pick the worst stuff, with only a few exceptions. This album sounds extremely dated and I'm not sure why anyone would classify this as essential listening.