RELEASES of the MONTH

selected & reviewed by DJ BOOZ

 

 

 

 

 

|||| MOLOKO |||| "Staues" [ 03.03.2003 ] . . . By Universal

 

 

 

REVIEW :

 

This Album rapresent exactly what everbody expected from Moloko.

As usual in Moloko's albums,the opening track and some other ones are very melodic (and sometimes sleepy),but that's not because they didn't want to make a groovy album...it's a choice to make the listener more enthusiast about funky sounds contained into some absolutely superb tracks.

There are two very exiting moments coming out of it : the first is a very pleasant step into funky electro-pop(deeply into electrofunk,not the usual Moloko's funky style).It begins after a sleepy intro and goes from track 2 to 3.I really think that these two tracks(not casually placed one after the other)can be putted with moloko's top songs of all times toghether with "Sing It Back","The Time Is Now","Indigo" and "Party Weirdo".Than we get another relaxing interlude (track 4,that gives the name to the album),followed by some deep house sonorities [track 5],that is quite unusual for this group.From this track till the end we slowly come back to the classical funky Moloko's style(track 9 is maybe the best of these),ending as it begun,laiding back.

Maybe the best Moloko's album toghether with "Do You Like My Tight Sweater" (1995) and "Things To Make And Do" (2000)

 

TRACKLIST :

1.Familiar Feelings
2.Come On
3.Cannot Contain This
4.Statues
5.Forever More
6.Blow By Blow
7.100 Per Cent
8.The Only Ones
9.I Want You
10.Over And Over

 

 

DJ BOOZ vote : 8