Product Description

'To All New Arrivals' is the fifth studio album proper fromtrance superband Faithless. An act that are as comfortable selling out arenas as they are playing clubs, this album finds the group in fine form, with collaborations from Cat Power and Robert Smith helping the band to push the borders between dance and rock to new and exciting levels. Includes the single 'Bombs'.

Track Listing

1. Bombs Feat. Harry Collier
2. Spiders, Crocodiles & Kryptonite Feat. Robert Smith
3. Music Matters Feat. Cass Fox
4. Nate’s Tune
5. I Hope
6. Last This Day Feat. Dido
7. To All New Arrivals Feat. Harry Collier
8. Hope & Glory Feat. One Eskimo
9. A Kind of Peace Feat. Cat Power
10. The Man In You
11. Emergency

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37506 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-27
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Faithless's fifth studio album, To All New Arrivals, is a tribute of sorts to the brand new babies that band-members Rollo and Sister Bliss recently (and separately) brought into the world. Lead single "Bombs", with its chugging, understated beat, social analysis and decidedly anti-war stance, makes for an impressive start. From there the album gets a little bogged down in the rose-tinted sentimentality of 'new parent' syndrome. "Spiders, Crocodiles and Kryptonite" has someone uttering childish inanities in a silly voice (its saved by an extended segment of the Cure's "Lullaby" - but only just); the uplifting "Music Matters" (with Cass Fox) is marred by mawkish lyrics; "I Hope" offers similarly trite messages of parental hope, and the title track plots sounds like a song for Children In Need. All this is doubtless well meant, but comes across as naïve, even vacuous in places. Fortunately the music fares better. Aside from the wishy-washy "Last This Day" (with Dido) and the nondescript "Nate's Tune," the robust "Hope & Glory", the wonderful "A Kind Of Peace" (with Cat Power), the catchy "The Man In You" and the bristling finale, "Emergency", show that Faithless are still capable of writing rousing club sounds. --Paul Sullivan

Customer Reviews

Don't pay any attention to these other reviews.
Don't pay any attention to these other reviews. It's a music CD not a political manifesto for a country's financial development!! Half these 'reviewers' who want to appear the intelligentsia of music can't even spell or punctuate! Some intelligence eh?

It's a good music CD to play in the background. Nice rhythms and harmony changes.

Makes my toe tap and my spirit relax.

Thanks Faithless. Good music.

One word, Amazing!
This album has got to be up there with some of the best in the genre. It conveys powerful messages on important social issues including class conflict and poverty. these messages are portayed in a most appealing way through words and sound. i take my hat off to you faithless, you guys have pussed the boat out on this album.

V. Good - after a few listens!
I bought this album after first hearing the radio edit of track 3 (music matters) - which is a pretty cool track. I was disappointed at first (especially with track 3!) but after a few full plays of the CD it has grown on me - I now think it is one of Faithless's better albums!

Overall a recommended CD - but don't be put off by the first play!