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Rating: Apparently, trip-hop is dead (critics rarely spread such news, perhaps they hide it even from themselves to avoid sending two flowers to the funeral). Does this mournful circumstance concern Morcheeba?
Actually, even when listening to “Big Calm”, the feeling was that Skye and the group made a decidedly moderate use of this style, noticeable only in certain songs with a languid atmosphere. Now “Fragments Of Freedom”, after an intermediate track like “World Looking In”, which seems to be the umbilical cord connecting the trio to its first two albums, reveals new cards with “Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day”, rhythm and blues in the classic sense of the term (not the modern one, according to which even Whitney Houston and Destiny’s Child would be doing r’n’b). And after the resounding immediacy of the single, it moves to the funky of “Love Is Rare”, the soul of “Let It Go”, the “disco” echoes of "Love Sweet Love” or “Shallow End” (check the calendar: it’s not 1978), up to the rap of “In The Hands Of The Gods” or “Good Girl Down”.
Those who would like to find the unusual blend of black music and acoustic atmospheres characteristic of “Big Calm” will not be entirely satisfied: there is some trace of it in “Be Yourself” and in the title track of the album, which recovers the harmonic progression of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway To Heaven”; but overall, in “Fragments Of Freedom” it is black music dominating in all its forms. Above all, though, with an eye to the past, to the retrieval of an energy and a sound soul that the black music, once brimming with it, seems to have lost today.
Is it a good album, the third by Morcheeba? It is certainly less captivating than “Big Calm”, and it deviates (with courage or recklessness) from the sounds that had conquered most of the group's fans; but it might have a longer life than its predecessors, due to the vitality of certain rhythms. The only drawback is that Skye's soft and seductive voice doesn't find the ballad to stretch upon, whereas some tracks seem suited to performers with somewhat sharper nails. But the album on the whole features more enjoyable tracks than you might hear in an hour of listening to any radio network, which is why we recommend giving it a listen.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 World Looking In ()
Angels
Smiling on my happiness
Danger
'Cause the scene is still a mess
( We can all be blessed )
Don't stop just yet
We' ve got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We' ve got the world looking in
Our window
Spacecraft
Spinning slowly out of sight
Policeman keep on chasing the wrong guy
( We'll see eye to eye )
Don't stop just yet
We've got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We' ve got the world looking in
Our window
We've got the world looking in
Our window
We've got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We've got the world looking in
Our window
Don't stop just yet
We've got the world looking in
Our window
07 In the Hands of the Gods (feat. Biz Markie) ()
(feat. Biz Markie)
Bicka-bicka Biz, bicka- bicka Mark...
I'm the drunk dance rocker,
But don't drink Vodka.
Never sang a song called Frere Jacques.
Rap rhyme schooler,
Composition Ruler,
In seventh grade I had teacher named Mr. Dooler.
I'm very unique and you will agree-ah,
One in a million like Mohamed and Aaliyah.
A self-believer,
An over-achiever,
Have more stunts than Coronel Seavers.
Ain't no other like B-I-Z,
M-A-R, K-I with the E.
Hang at the Rucker,
Got a Hummer Truck-ah.
Wouldn't trade the busy-boy cuz I'm no sucker.
I'll be bouncing like a ball,
When I say, "Yes, Y'all."
If you don't rock with me you won't rock at all.
So check me out,
With out no doubt,
I'm guaranteed to rock and turn the party out!
We gonna do right....
I'm on,
like popcorn.
Like a Saturday nite at the Autobahn.
Listen to the Brother,
Ain't no other can mess with.
The man with the plan,
with the most finesse.
I make you scream,
And I'll make you dance.
I'm guaranteed to rock the mike,
And put you all in a trance.
So listen to the Brother,
Ain't no other can stutter,
(unintelligable) "ah- whadda a-whadda ah-rock, rock"
MC-Butter.
The man to do the "Up, a one-two,"
or "ah hah hah hah hah"
I rock with you.
So listen to me,
cuz I'm THE
Original B-I-Z-M-A-R-K-I
out with the E!
BABE
I'm guaranteed to rock and turn the party out!
BABE
09 Be Yourself ()
Too much of a good thing
Has really burnt me out
I'm sick of satisfaction
And living in a drought
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
The center of attention
Is living on the edge
The thirty-second floor
I'm standing on a ledge
Got to get this straight
Cos we're running too late
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway that you want to, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
Just be yourself
Anyway, baby
Just be yourself
Anyway that you can
12 Fragments of Freedom ()
Sample : (ouh, maybe you're right)
When the party's over
You got no way to go...
13 Moog Island ()
Sometimes I get up feeling good but greed gets me down,
I try to think about the highs, the freedom we've found,
When the business in your life don't sit with your soul,
And they treat you like a child they need to control.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
We're all gonna rise above all things that we lack,
Good vibrations that we make will come bouncing back.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
The music that we make will heal all our mistakes and lead us,
The music that we hear is always standing near to feed us.
14 Trigger Hippie ()
Tune in, drop out of love,
Pull the trigger, I'm a hippie,
So said a truth, and blood,
Alive and well,
You push the buttons.
Standing in line of fire,
For the whole,
My soul,
Step codes,
The drums,
And sing,
Love the children,
Learn to live with everything.
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
Zoom in, cut out at sound,
Make it feel so trippy
Hung up, let down to ground,
Forget the kill it's far to sticky
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
Love love love, i'm a trigger hippie, yeah
Love love love, we're trigger hippies, yeah.
15 Summertime ()
Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your mama's rich
And your daddy's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
One of these mornin's
You're gonna rise up singin'
You're gonna spread your wings
And fly to the sky
But until that
Nothin' can harm you
With mummy and daddy
Standin' by
Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high
Your mama's rich
And your daddy's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry
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