I have to say i was really looking forward to cold cuts new album. I had been to see them play live at creamfeilds where they blasted the crowd with their crazy breaky laptop music, joined with breath taking visuals and syncopated video "scratching". Its just a shame that there album didn't live up to the live show. I was truely dissapointed on 1st listen of sound mirrors. The album just doesn't seem to have any stand out tracks and it washes over you very quickly, not in a good way though, non of the tracks had hooks and some just droned me into the ground. I thought i would give it a second chance but after hearing it for the second time after 10 minutes i had had enough and it went in the never to be played again pile. This is a real big shame as there was a lot of hype leading up to the album and the live show was rocking, but when the red light is on it just does'nt sound the same.
In my opinion a waste of good money.
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Sound Mirrors
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