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80
Statues has a more complete feel to it than the three predecessors, and without containing an abundance of top 40 hits, it is a very intelligent, heart warming record that should be listened to on a deep comfy couch, in a quiet living room, with a whisky & coke and your best friend.
9y
40
Statues fails to add up to the sum of its parts, and feels curiously like a disc from a previous decade, possibly the 1970s.
9y
You know what? Fuck it. This album is just so much fun and I constantly return to it without feeling bored. It’s some funky, instrumentally diverse (from strings to piano), electronic-based, forward-thinking dance pop/house album that I can’t get enough of. I didn’t know I needed such an uncompromising mixture of different sounds that manage to work together so fluidly, but here we are.
Borrowing codes from funk, dance, soul and pop, what hit me the most in this record, is the incredible diversity from one track to an other, and yet, it all fits together perfectly. Nothing predictable here, only a superbly played variety of instruments from bass, to piano and strings resulting in impeccably composed melodies.
Funky!
Fav tracks: Cannot Contain This, Forever More, Familiar Feeling, Statues e Over & Over
Least fav: Blow X Blow
Sophisticated pop with a side of camp that doesn’t just throw itself at you. You sort of have to be ready to decode the fuzz in the fine print lest you might dismiss it at just another passable post disco record. Moloko do a fine job at weaving electronic and pop music but when they’re not pushing forward the sonic bite, the album tends to fall on deaf ears.
The groove that develops during the first track will hit you harder than crack in low income housing; it's almost like a Fela Kuti jam session performed under the same sound palette of an ABBA song, if that makes any sense.
And while the rest of the record is still fantastic, don't get it twisted; "Familiar Feeling" is the highest of peaks it will reach.
𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑: This album's rating may not be entirely accurate, since it has not gone ... read more
not bad but i fell the first half was weak in comparrison to the rest. last 3 songs are amazing.
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Track List
| 1 | Familiar Feeling 6:30 | 91 |
| 2 | Come On 4:40 | 82 |
| 3 | Cannot Contain This 5:39 | 84 |
| 4 | Statues 5:23 | 76 |
| 5 | Forever More 7:20 | 87 |
| 6 | Blow X Blow 3:12 | 81 |
| 7 | 100% 5:12 | 87 |
| 8 | The Only Ones 4:13 | 78 |
| 9 | I Want You 5:05 | 86 |
| 10 | Over & Over 9:51 | 88 |
Total Length: 57 minutes
