Platinum Collection, The - Morcheeba

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 a big Morcheeba fan, get the special edition version because it comes with a short film which is very imformative. When it comes down to it though, buy this album. It will enrich your record collection.... Read review

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Advantages: Very relaxing, something a bit different
Disadvantages: It ain't to everyone's taste lol

...Well it looks like it's back to the grindstone for me then. Having not even contemplated doing a music op for over a week now, I'm sitting here feeling quite proud of myself, yes I can write about other things apart from music and it was nice to do so, having a break while I rooted through my collection trying to find albums to recommend to you people out there. I never tend to give albums bad reviews, and this is probably because I don't own many albums that I don't like, cos I do my research first you see before purchase, or sometimes just buy on the strength of an artist's reputation, knowing that everything they produce is going to be mint anyway so if you don't know too much of the material on the album you don't have to worry about it. I'm trying to remember how I first discovered Morcheeba and I seem to recall that it came about... Read review

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Advantages: Grabs the disco boogie by the hips, and shakes.
Disadvantages: Crap cover

...What a tip top collection of tunes. I was stunned by the first album, as it exceeded my expectations having seen them live just beforte it's release. I was then stunned by the second album, which took it in the same vein, but to a totally different destination, and this album has done it again. As for being the darker side of the English trip hop thing that happened off the back of Portishead a few years ago, they've always had a light and floaty edge to it, but here, they've thrown the whole thing to the dancefloor, and (can i take it to the bridge?) it's funktastic. It's printene funksoultripdisco, and it's not the kind of 400 bpm crap which has tried to dumb down dancing for the e-heads of the land. It's good, clever, musical stuff, played by real musicians, not these muppet head compsci djs who seem to have grabbed the british... Read review

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