Red Snapper

Making Bones

2007-07-29T08:31:00.001-07:00

This is one of the most soulful acid jazz abbums i have ever heard. Simply fantastic. These british boys surely know their way around electronic as well as organic instruments. The lady's voice on "image of you" and "seeing red" is simply to die for. Excillent live sounding sets that give the entire album a very retro feel are intricately fused in with elements of D&B and Hip Hop. There are no filler tracks what so ever and each and every track is fantastic in its own cool way. There is one track that is absolutely fabulus.."Suckerpunch"..wow...i dont what its about this one but its a rockin toe tappin groove that will hit you in the face and you wont even know it. Production is fantistic..these guys are just great musicians and i am definately gonna check out their other stuff. The overall feel of the album is very raw and hedonistic and yet totally smooth.
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Prince Blimey

2007-07-29T08:27:00.001-07:00

This is truly a magnificent album. The sound quality is excellent, the performance is way out and the inventiveness is remarkable. If you want to buy only one Red Snapper album, this is by far the one. The band has changed a lot and what they have put out after this album is not comparable. It looks like they are trying to be more commercial and they now sound like any hip hop band (now they have a rapper). I wish they returned to the style that makes this album special. Buy this one, you will not regret it.

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Reeled and Skinned

2007-07-29T08:08:00.001-07:00

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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