Advantages: Everything; up there with the best of them Disadvantages: You have to change disc!
I bought this in 2006 for £5. This is one seriously chilled album, featuring many unheard of artists. It has 30 tracks in total. The design is simple, the packaging minimal.
There is over 2 hours of tunes on here. I would compare this to Red Jerry's "Deep and Chilled Euphoria" from 2001. The tracks on here are more recent, one of them "Kota" by Bonobo being featured on an O2 advert some years ago. It has happy parts, sad parts and parts that allow you to reflect. "Shake It Loose" by Dolphin Boy takes your mind to another dimension.
"Only Hush" by Nostalgia 77 sounds very underground and shady.
But "Kota" must be one the top tracks, simple and non-mainstream.
All in all a fabulous album! ...
Advantages: Loads of Phil Collins songs Disadvantages: Loads of Phil Collins songs messed up
- Changing Faces. Ok this isnt bad. To replicate the original should be quite simple, its a slow song with very little percussion and this track is the same. Two voices sound good on it though
All My Life - Another ok track. TQ gives it a little something and you apprechiate his efforts. Good beats
I Wish It Would Rain Down - Not a fan of Phils version let alone this one. Its just a bit bland
Take Me Home - Malik Pendleton. If you want to hear a different version of this song, Bone Thugs have a version on one of their albums which actually features Phil in the video. This is again too bland.
Overall not great. Some bigger tunes could have been attempted like Two Hearts, Physical Touch and Groovy Kind of Love but they would have probably messed those up aswell! Listen to the originals if you want your Phil fix, also considering ...
Advantages: A couple of decent tracks Disadvantages: The album lacks consistency, a lot of fillers are evident here
and 'When Your Heart Stops Beating' is therefore a much better offering than what we had from Mr DeLonge. Whereas after the demise of Blink 182, Tom DeLonge took the route of taking himself far too seriously and becoming a complete egotist, +44 are far more light-hearted, and although their music is at times a far cry from that of what they were producing as Blink 182; a lot of the time the tracks here sound like cast off's from Blink 182's self titled release.
'When Your Heart Stops Beating' starts off promisingly with 'Lycanthrope', a track which is fairly pacey and keeps your interest for the 4 minutes that it runs for. Although this track is pacey with strong drum beats and guitars, it's never really anything spectacular and although starts the album nicely enough it will never leave you gasping in awe of what you have just listened to ...
