Reeled and Skinned

This album doesn't really have any peers, in my opinion. Totally sexy, heavy stand-up bass with minimal drum breaks and some trippy horns make for a great chill out record. Some fleeting "lyrics" here and there add a touch of mysterious humanity but never get in the way of the music. These guys (especially on Reeled and Skinned) fit well in the trip hop genre, but artists with this kind of creativity and originality are few and far between. This album is thick with what makes cool, cool ~ almost as if it's been dipped in mollases. I've not talked to a single person who knows this album who doesn't also love it. As far as another reviewer's comments about this album not being their most balanced; this makes sense, as this is actually a compilation of three previous EP's (as noted on the album cover). I was very sad to learn that RS won't be making any new material together, but it makes me cling just that much more tightly to my second copy of this heavily-played (but never played-out) trip-hop masterpiece. Red Snapper rules.

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