Part Of The Process

Purveyors of ultra cool, silky, trip-hop beatscapes, courtesy of brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey, all rendered palatable by sultry singer Skye Edwards, Morcheeba dominated the commercial end of the UK dance scene during the second half of the 1990’s. This compilation brings together all the singles and more – from their debut underground 1996 hit ‘Trigger Hippy’ to later chart-toppers like ‘Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day’ and ‘What’s Your Name’.

From their impressively downbeat debut album, Who Can You Trust, come dreamy, mellow cuts like ‘Never An Easy Way’ and ‘Moog Island’, still among their most focused work to date. Three numbers from the more pop-oriented Big Calm follow including the appealing acoustic guitar pop of ‘Part Of The Process’, the indie-sounding ‘Blindfold’ and the almost Corrs-like ‘Let Me See’.

Last year’s Charango saw them embrace a subtle world music template and resulted in an unlikely collaboration with Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner which produced the quirky ‘What New York Couples Fight About’. Other highlights here include the irresistibly affecting ‘World Looking In’ and the Air-like ‘Undress Me Now’, which finds Edwards at her most sensuous.

While some might have had them marked them down as a poor man’s Portishead or a less credible Massive Attack, this collection convincingly proves otherwise.