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UrbRoni really hits home near the end, the last seven tracks making the album purchase (and the wait) more than worth it. [Dec 2004, p.110]
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It's well produced and mixed, but lacks the edge to make it really interesting.
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While collaborations with the likes of Viktor Duplaix ("Pull Up"), Rahzel ("Out of Breath") and British MC's Darrison ("Time") and Dynamite MC ("No More") provide interesting listens, nothing here is as revolutionary as such Roni Size classics as "New Forms" or Breakbeat Era's "Ultra Obscene."
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New Musical Express (NME)Size has merely moved from the coffee tables of the last century into the elevators of the next. [30 Oct 2004, p.65]
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He's trying to simultaneously stretch and stay true to his roots. It's a hard balancing act to pull off, and he's only partially successful.
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Unfortunately though, Return to V isn't a back-to-basics record, and there isn't a single landmark to pick out from its 18 tracks.
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BlenderThe samey, smothering beats make it inaccessible to anyone without a pacifier in their mouth. [Jan/Feb 2005, p.111]
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While Size's ideas are more rampant, they haven't developed enough.
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UncutVaries immensely in quality. [Dec 2004, p.137]
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Q MagazineWhat once sounded thrilling and new now merely sounds tired and repetitive. [Nov 2004, p.127]
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This album could easily have been released in the mid-Nineties, when Size and his V Records crew pointed the way forward. Ten years later, it is just a skittery nostalgia trip.
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F4bMay 22, 2005Not his best work, but one of the most multi-directional. Nice.