The fruitful collaboration between the ambient pioneer and Underworld’s talisman has spawned a second album – and far from being a selection of offcuts not deemed suitable for the first album, ‘Someday World’, it’s actually a set of new and organic jams. While the spirit of improvisation is always close to the surface there is a satisfying chemistry between the two, and on ‘High Life’ they apply it to music of much greater rhythm and meaning. ‘DBF’ is the most ‘out-there’ track, a slice of high life if you like that suggests the duo have been taking in some African music. The trance-like state this induces can also be found in ‘Return’, which is a great propulsive track, while throughout the album small melodic cells are taken and multiplied into substantial tracks. Hyde’s vocals, when he chooses to use them, are sensitively deployed, and although there are only six tracks on the album it makes for a pleasing whole.
4 out of 5
Reviewed By Ben Hogwood
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