Let's say it like this. Just open up a bottle of red wine in a comfortable evenening with your lady and let the music flow with the mood. Great trip hop album!
March 29, 2008 |  | A very strong, rootsy trip-hop disc |  |
Who Can You trust is Morcheeba's first major effort and it's a strong one. Standout tracks for me include "Trigger Hippie" and "Tape Loop," which both should be part of any right-thinking trip-hop mix. The first two-thirds of the disc move consistently and well, giving way to a quiet and gloomy atmosphere in the latter part of the album. This disc and Big Calm both make me think of the old early 70's soul albums and of early, early Funkadelic. This Manchester band was a big part of the extraordinary flowering of musical talent out of that city in the nineties. This disc and Big Calm are the two essential CDs to get by this band.
January 18, 2008 | | should have been done later | |
i bought "Big Calm" before this album and was blown away. morcheeba has mastered the trip-pop sound on that album. my expectations for this album were fairly high considering the fact that i heard that it was more straight forward trip-hop. i've listened to this album several times and while it does have strong songwriting, i don't think morcheeba are good enough of a band to go this experimental on their first album. the comparisons musically and structurally on this compared to "Big Calm" are so obvious that in some instances i felt the order of release should have been reversed. there aren't enough singles and catchiness in this one to catch the attention of the listener, especially for a first time out band. i do appreciate the adventurous nature of it, but it just came out a bit to early.
March 21, 2007Kind of hard to believe that it's been nearly a decade since Trip Hop was the next big thing. With a few exceptions, one of which is Morcheeba, much of the so called Trip Hop music now sounds dated, and hasn't aged very well.
Morcheeba came at it from a slightly different angle. As an example, I doubt you'll hear any other bands of the genre cover Neil Young, as Morcheeba did. They also got the attention of David Byrne, who in turn introduced them to Jim White. The Godfrey brothers would work, with great effect, on Byrne's "Feelings" and later Jim White's "No such place".
Among their peers, about the only one that comes to mind that still sounds pretty good is Portishead's "Dummy". "Who can you trust" and "Big calm" have, for the most part, stood the test of time, and sound great pretty much from beginning to end. By the time they released "Fragments of Freedom", the band was in the process of fragmenting, and the later releases just don't hold up.
Take a close look at the cover photo. If you know what it is, you'll instantly understand what inspired this album and the optimum state of mind in which to listen to it.
April 19, 2006 This album epitomizes "CHILL OUT" music, if you love great lyrics, female vocals, all-round great music and of course your a smoker of the greener persuasion then this is the album just for you. Buy it, and you'll love it!!
Johnny Jargon!
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