Track Listing

1. Over The Ice
2. Paw In My Face
3. Good Things End
4. Little Heart Beats So Fast
5. Everday
6. Silent
7. Deal
8. Sun & Ice
9. Mobilia
10. From Here We Go Sublime

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33553 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Afterhours Bliss
I first listened to this album in the car cruising down the M6 at 4 in the morning, and it was just beautiful. From first track to last this album just lulls along nicely, develops, and then repeats. I appreciate this for what it is, simple beats, simple 80 samples (some remniscent of Orb tracks,and future sound of london), and lots of repetition. Hence four stars.

This album is great for driving long distances on motorways, some of the tracks hit me like star guitar by the chemical brothers used to (and some of booka shade's earlier material). My only main criticism is that some of the tracks feel like the should drop a nice thicker bassline or something, but just run out of steam before they get there! (unlike some of booka shade's earlier material).

If you dont like minimal, or progressive house (or both) steer well clear of this album!

Something lacking...
It always bothers me whenever I catch myself thinking a piece a dance music is "repetitive". It's often the whole point of a dance track. Thinking this way makes me feel old. Take my mum, for instance. She can't stand to hear the opening of LCD Soundsystem's 'All My Friends', regardless of how bloody beautiful the rest of the track is, because it seems a bit TOO repetitive to her. Listening to 'From Here We Go Sublime', I think I can relate.

My problem with the album isn't necessarily the copy-paste nature of the music being produced. It's the nagging feeling in the back of my head that something's missing from the mix. Almost as if Alex Willner accidentally deleted a few tracks from his ProTools session. And I can't get past that feeling. The music that IS present is adequate enough: looping, thumping and swirling as trance music should. Maybe that's enough for some people.

Looking at other, professional reviews, I think there's a possibility I've missed the point. There must be some reason why its Metacritic rating puts it as the best album of 2007. My first impression stands however. There's something lacking from all of this if you ask me.

betamax
In my opinion this album sucks. I bought it on spec based on the other review comments on this site, but was so dissappointed I returned the CD for a refund.