More Than Alot - Chase & Status

...although they come with even more of the top-quality Drum & Bass which you expect from them as they choose to incorporate a little of the Funky House style of things and use bongos as the drums of choices for making this one, and from here you have them doing a running commentary on how to build up such a club banger and make it work effectively.

**Five Stars**

3. "Against All Odds"

This is perhaps ...
...having a go at a more Drum & Bass styled Jungle tune as you have them taking on the typical charactersitics of a Jugle tune, with breaks on a Reggae-based tune, but rather than utilising samples, you have them using Takura to just go at things in a more straight-foward way, and not as the way things were in the earlier days of Jungle in the early to mid nineties.

**Five Stars**

5. "Smash TV"

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The London duo of Saul Milton and Will Kennard, better known as Chase & Status dropped their debut album, "More Than Alot" towards the end of 2008. The pair is most known for their work in Drum & Bass, but have expanded to other styles along this Acid House-based style of Electronica with a little Dubstep inter-worked into their stuff too.

1. "Can't Get Enough"

In knowledge of what singles have been included on this album, I would have to say that this isn't the best of starts to come off this album as they could have gone much better with it all, but still choose to hold back and come with a fair soulful jam to get you going before they come with harder tunes later. It certainly gets you in the mood for what is to come, but just isn't the best from them.

**Four Stars**

2. "Music Club"

This is a witty one from the group, as although they come with even more of the top-quality Drum & Bass which you expect from them as they choose to incorporate a little of the Funky House style of things and use bongos as the drums of choices for making this one, and from here you have them doing a running commentary on how to build up such a club banger and make it work effectively.

**Five Stars**

3. "Against All Odds"

This is perhaps the most popular recording to come off the album as it gets them doing a collaboration with the Grime artist Kano, and he does exactly what you expect from him, but it gives the production duo a chance o get into something which should have been done long before as they choose to use "Apache", one of two main breaks used for D&B, and use the original sample of the Incredible Bongo Band, rather than a sped-up, re-played electronic version to show where things have come from, and how it comes together.

**Five Stars**

4. "Streetlife"

This one seems to get them having a go at a more Drum & Bass styled Jungle tune as you have them taking on the typical charactersitics of a Jugle tune, with breaks on a Reggae-based tune, but rather than utilising samples, you have them using Takura to just go at things in a more straight-foward way, and not as the way things were in the earlier days of Jungle in the early to mid nineties.

**Five Stars**

5. "Smash TV"

This one really rips things up as they still find places where they are able to experiment with the way that you construct a breakdown in a D&B tune. This one, in light of the rise in the Dubstep sub-genre, has them trial this broken style of taking things down, rather than going for a typical Amen or Apache break, and the results are just as good as you would expect from them. They alter the frequency randomly to come up with a strange kind of working, but it comes together very well.

**Five Stars**

6. "Pieces"

UK Hip Hop act Plan B joins them on this one, and he adds a lot to the thing as he sings to begin with before getting deeper as they build towards a breakdown. I would say that this fits right into what you get on the album, and if it wasn't a single, you could forget it, but it was successful here, and so came across as a big one on the album.

**Four Stars**

7. "Eastern Jam"

I liked the fact that this one, clearly one of the best tracks on the album, doesn?t just give up the quality immediately, this one has them build up the tension by opting to add a little of the fad phase of London going on at the time, and put a little Funky House in this to begin it. However following this one get them coming with one of the grimiest Dubstep drops you have ever heard, and take things to another level. It just kills it.

**Five Stars**

8. "Foundation" (Skit)

9. "Take Me Away"

This came out as one of their earliest hits and had them get their name out there as they initally got up there in the D&B scene. I would have to say that altough what they do isn't actaullt that spseical, the fact that they clearly master the contrast of heavy beats with drowing synth and relavent vocals to support it shows that they have what is required.

**Five Stars**

10. "Hurt You"here in the

This album has them experimenting with all type of D&B, and on this occasion you have them doing one that takes them to a much more commercial place as they perform some soulful stuff, with a female vocalist leading what they do on it. This one is much older than the other tracks here, and as a 2007 single for them didn?t do too well, but still managed to greatly increase their popularity.

**Five Stars**

11. "Running"

This one has them trialling something which I personally would never have expected them to go, and the way it begins builds up a great contrast to where it leads as you have no idea where they could go with the initial song. It begins as an eighties synth-Pop tune, but eventually after building up (which could have gone towards the Dum & Bass side) chooses to drop into more Dubstep, but the niceness of the vocals as initial beat means it doesn't come out too well.

**Three Stars**

12. "Take You There"

As we get towards the end of the album, you have them doing a track which reminds me much more of the times in the mid to latet and what was going on in the D&B world then with the soft-sounding breaks, and generally funkier production. It is well-done and certainly make sure that they can master the early days, as well as they can advance things.

**Four Stars**

13. "Is it Worth It"

Ending the album off, you get a banger of a track to finalise it, do it in a memorable way as they seem to merge the commerical soulful style of Drum & Bass with the harder style which early listeners enjoyed a lot more. However I felt that the balance was just enough for it to be not to be apparent that this was the case no matter which side you took from it all.

**Five Stars**

This is a strong album from the duo, and it certainly shows everything they are capable of. There is only one clear weak point in the album as they attempt something experimental, but aside from this, it is well put-together and they show that they are able to do everything which they have at least started at some point.  

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