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Rhythm and Stealth
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Track Listing
- Dusted
- Phat Planet
- Chant Of A Poorman
- Double Flash
- El Cid
- Afrika Shox
- Dub Gussett
- Swords
- 6/8 War
- Reno's Prayer
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #8703 in Music
- Released on: 2001-06-13
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
One too many
If this had been Leftfield's first album they would have sunk without a trace. The finesse and density of ideas that makes Leftism such a thrill to listen to just isn't here. Instead they sound like a couple of second raters trying desperately to sound like Leftfield.
Left to their own devices
Since splitting up(impeccably planned?)Leftfield have become music industry ledgends... They helped shape all that we know and love and continue to influence a massive audience.
Rythmn and Stealth is the perfect continuation of their style. Don't expect the grounbreaking progressive house line of Leftism, this is more mature, dignified and impartial. It is a distillation of the music industry of the time it was engineered. Every track here is produced to a standard that other outfits drool with jealousy over.
Swords is a vocal triumph melting some fantastic layers and rythmn sections and if you liked the ambient bliss of 'Melt' on 'Leftism' then you're going love the sleepy 'El Cid'.
This album is not about treading the exalted path of the last album, its about treading new paths and that is what Leftfield do best.
Buy this and you are receiving a definitve piece of the Leftfield psyche along with the formiddable work of electronic music's greatest duo. Unmissable.
Give it space
Strange, very strange. I got this on the day of its release, fired up by Phat Planet and of course Leftism, listened to it avidly for about a month - just couldn't get enough of the dark, juicy loudness of it - but then for some reason it just slipped off my radar. I sympathise with reviewers who say there was nothing to engage with, I found that too I think.
Then, completely out of the blue, the other day I suddenly had '6/8 War' going round and round my head, and it stayed there until I finally got the record out and listened to it again. What a brilliant piece of work this is. I can't believe I haven't bothered with it for so long. The dark, dubby minimalism starts looking wildly before its time - this sounds like prototype Grime almost - and the record as a whole is dense and many-layered.
If you were disappointed when you bought it, try it again.
