Music
15 Feb 06

Sound Mirrors

Coldcut have been around since the dawn of dance music and, while they have a propensity to dabble in dull multimedia ‘projects’, this new album resonates on a number of levels. Sound Mirrors has crossover potential, with the bluesy vocals of ‘Man In A Garage’ and the orchestral ‘Walk A Mile In My Shoes’ outdoing Air or Zero. More importantly though, Coldcut are sick of electronic music’s inability to make political statements: Mirrors rails against corrupt international aid agencies on ‘Aid Dealer’, and the senseless destruction of the environment on the old school house-pianos-meets-jungle bass of ‘Island Earth’. They are right-on, tree-hugging hippies, but these days, we need Coldcut more than ever.

Coldcut have been around since the dawn of dance music and, while they have a propensity to dabble in dull multimedia ‘projects’, this new album resonates on a number of levels.
Sound Mirrors has crossover potential, with the bluesy vocals of ‘Man In A Garage’ and the orchestral ‘Walk A Mile In My Shoes’ outdoing Air or Zero.
More importantly though, Coldcut are sick of electronic music’s inability to make political statements: Mirrors rails against corrupt international aid agencies on ‘Aid Dealer’, and the senseless destruction of the environment on the old school house-pianos-meets-jungle bass of ‘Island Earth’. They are right-on, tree-hugging hippies, but these days, we need Coldcut more than ever.