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Offishull press release says this:
"Kish Kash - Basement Jaxx
Released: October 20th on XL Recordings
Ripping up the rule book once again, Basement Jaxx return with their third album Kish Kash. With Remedy and Rooty they famously "fucked house music up the arse". Now they're going to fuck with your heads. Taking in punk, funk electro and northern soul the Jaxx have produced an astoundingly intense, ugly and beautiful ride from start to finish.
Filching from all the disparate strands of music's past to create something spellbindingly new, this album sees a handpicked band of collaborators drawn from across the musical spectrum and Felix and Simon's magpie like-record collections. First single 'Lucky Star' (released November 10th) sees the Jaxx in cahoots with the UK underground's boy in the corner Dizzee Rascal, a harsh tagteam assault leaping straight from the underground and into the charts. Other collaborations include legendary South London punk pioneer Siouxsie Sioux on electropunk thrashout Cish Cash; Lisa Kekaula from LA rock and soul shakermakers the Bellrays belting out 'Good Luck', the kind of
crazed stomper you'd end up with if Grooverider played at the Wigan Casino; nu soul diva Meshell Ndegéocello getting sassy on p-funked dancefloor mover Right Here's The Spot and N*Sync asylum seeker JC Chasez adding some falsetto to the unhinged r&b sex-up meets rave anthem that is Plug It In.
Basement Jaxx have returned to give dance music a much needed slap in the chops. Taking Where's Your Head At as the blue print and their 'punk garage' fusion to its logical endgame Felix & Simon have produced an album that is above and beyond genre classification. Now, when all around are treading creative water, Kish Kash dives in at the deep end. Ready for La Future?"
So. On the one hand, Rooty is a fucking awesome album, and I still cannot think of the words Basement Jaxx without getting 'Romeo' stuck in my head which in turn puts a smile on my face and a spring in my step. And to this the presence of Dizzee, Siouxsie, The Bellrays' singer and someone from N*Sync really suggests something... mental.
On the other hand, it could mean 'ooooh, look at me I'm eclectic'. And it always puts the wind up me when press releases say an album is going to fuck with our heads by like, wow man, mashing up loads of genres.
The big question then: will this be their Surrender or their Fat Of The Land? I figure it could go either way, but I'm leaning towards at least half of it being brilliant, and I'm dying to hear it...
That's the next few months big albums sorted then: Neptunes present Clones this month, Outkast next month, and then Kish Kash. |
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