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- Summary: This debut album from two-step pioneer MJ Cole was nominated for the Mercury Prize in the UK (but lost out to Badly Drawn Boy).
- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Dance, Electronic, House
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It's Cole's deep vocal tracks, though, that steal the show.
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In lieu of monotonous dancefloor beats, Cole prefers a more intricate soundscape, one in which pizzicato string flourishes freely caress funk-fortified rhythms
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Entertainment WeeklyHis attempts to make electronic music safe for the mainstream occasionally sound like callow crossover maneuvers. [4/20/2001, p.72]
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Cole is a slick producer, dropping just the right sounds to impress fellow DJs and keep club kids doing the boogie fever.
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The very qualities that annoyed me about it at first - the "proper" musicality, the lack of rough edges - are what draws me to it now.
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With the gleaming, self-aware production as well as both Danny Vicious' embarrassing rapping and Elisabeth Troy's overly soulful vocals, it's clear that Cole wants respect at every turn. Despite the consequences.
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It’s way too often here that everything new and interesting about two-step gets brushed aside for suspiciously lite jazz and limp mixes of dancefloor hits.
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