Fragments Of Freedom - Morcheeba

Advantages: Angelic Vocals
Disadvantages: Not for everyone

Easy listening the music genre conjures up all kinds of images in ones mind, but mention a band like Morcheeba and that image may start to disintegrate. On the other hand the music they create, although found in the dance racks of any record store, could definitely considered as lounge music. This is their third album that develops their mellow sound into a brighter happier sound, but still showing elements of their trip hop origins. Skye Edwards ...
...angelic voice, and it would be hard to disagree with this argument. A deeply routed lyrical album it is not, but there is still an underlying message to every track. The album opens with “World Looking In”, a track with an underlying western twang, with a catchy chorus, but not as catchy as the second track almost anthem like in its chorus of “Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day,” a feel good track that is perhaps the most poppy ... Read review

Advantages: Skye's voice is still amazing
Disadvantages: Not much of what make them so unique

...of equal quality to previous tracks. Morcheeba are unquestionably progressing, mixing their talent with new ideas and managing to pull off great songs. If the next album can hit just somewhere between Fragments of Freedom and Big Calm, it may just be the greatest album for any fan to own. ... Read review

Advantages: Skye is still singing
Disadvantages: A little bit too Disco on some tracks

What a difference a few years make, it's still the same Morcheeba, the same smooth vocal form Skye and the 2 boys(?) providing that trip hop originality that first brought the trio to the attention. This time around though there is a disco feel to morethan half of the tracks on the album particularly "love is rare" and a more pop feel than ever before with "Be Yourself". The highlight has to be "love sweet love " which uses a Grandmaster flash(ish) ...
...a fan of Morcheeba you mightn't rate it as high as the first 2 releases but I've no doubt that they will gain lorry load of new fans with the single releases of this album. And they deserve it, not the greatest third album....but there ethos is still spot on. Nice.......... ... Read review

Advantages: Short film on special edition, positive sound
Disadvantages: Very different from previous albums

Morcheeba... New album, new look, new sound. If you really liked Who can you trust, and didn't like Big Calm as much, then you won't like this. Moving away from their trip-hop roots and towards hip-hop. From the unashamedly disco shallow end (a song proclaiming that if you write shallow songs or "dive into the shallow end you'll only bash your head" says Skye philosophically) to the poppy rome wasn't bulit in a day. One thing's for sure. If you're ... Read review

Advantages: Some rockin' beats!
Disadvantages: Experimentation generates bads as well as goods.

...worth buying for its diversity and just to listen to the dreamy voice of Skye Edwards whose vocal talents are more apparent in their first album, Who Can You Trust, but which are still very much a part of the reason why Fragments of Freedom is such a good album. ... Read review