{"id":255,"date":"2013-10-25T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=255"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:48:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T15:48:22","slug":"morcheeba-head-up-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/morcheeba-head-up-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Morcheeba <br>Head Up High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/morcheeba-head_up_high.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/morcheeba-head_up_high.jpg\" alt=\"morcheeba-head_up_high\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/morcheeba-head_up_high.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/morcheeba-head_up_high-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>In the late &#8217;90s, on the cusp of the new millennium, everyone was excited about the space-age future, which was reflected in the trends of the time, like <a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,1913612_1913610_1913561,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drinks with floating flavor orbs<\/a>. Trip-hop <i>sounded <\/i>like the future\u2014the loungey soundtrack to cool parties in our apartments with inflatable chairs. Then, the clock clicked to the year 2000 and\u2026 meh. Everyone immediately started yearning for the past, and retro become king once more.<\/p>\n<p>Now we\u2019ve come full circle, back to a \u201990s revival, so it\u2019s timely that Morcheeba, the British trio who helped define the trip-hop genre with 1995\u2019s <i>Trigger Hippie <\/i>EP, 1996\u2019s <i>Who Can You Trust?<\/i> and 1998\u2019s <i>Big Calm<\/i>, is back with a new release, <i>Head Up High<\/i>. So how does a sound that was so of that time hold up without sounding totally dated? OK, as it turns out\u2014at least in this case.<\/p>\n<p>Though the record is Morcheeba\u2019s eighth studio album, it\u2019s only the second since vocalist Skye Edwards reunited with DJ siblings Ross and Paul Godfrey. With Edwards returning with her distinctive voice\u2014always smooth and subtlety\u00a0powerful, ranging from soulful on tracks like the R&amp;B-tinged \u201cI\u2019ll Fall Apart\u201d to effortlessly sexy on the new single \u201cGimme Your Love\u201d\u2014the old sound is resurrected, with the buried vocals on the latter nearly retro-sounding at this point. The band gets its groove back\u2014very literally\u2014with \u201cTo Be,\u201d featuring Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sule from Rizzle Kicks, and on \u201cHypnotized,\u201d with guest vocals by Ana Tijoux, who Paul Godfrey first heard when her track <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KpFDJNLIjZA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201c1977\u201d<\/a> was featured on <i>Breaking Bad<\/i>. The band is seemingly self-aware that it\u2019s been nearly 20 years since their debut, without being self-conscious or trying too hard to be cool (e.g. Madonna\u2019s <i>MDNA<\/i>). With guest appearances from musicians like White Denim\u2019s James Petralli and nods to dubstep in tracks such as \u201cTo the Grave\u201d and \u201cMake Believer,\u201d the trio incorporates new elements while staying true to itself.<\/p>\n<p>While there\u2019s a nagging (or is it fleeting?) feeling that a lot of these tracks are a little forgettable, Morcheeba has definitely stood the test of time much better than an Orbitz drink, an inflatable chair or the hopes and dreams at the dawn of the millennium. This record proves that, unlike many things from the late \u201890s, Morcheeba is worth revisiting\u2014and for more than just nostalgia\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late &#8217;90s, on the cusp of the new millennium, everyone was excited about the space-age future, which was reflected in the trends of the time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,74],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-morcheeba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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