This political and social satire-drenched, industrial-rap rock release is punk in scope but not in sound. Think Sister Machine Gun meets Pop Will Eat Itself.
Others struggle to project the dreamy, seductive, atmospheric, and “soul” aesthetics of the genre, Zero 7 sew together better songs with better surroundings.
2am is a masterful work, an incredible array of layers and textures that takes a third, a fifth, and a 20th listen to catch. But the listen is worth it.
Latin, jazz, world music, post-rock (they’re from Chicago, after all), prog rock, IDM, all distilled of their essence and reborn as It’s All Around You.
Remixes is quite fascinating, not just because of who did the remixes, but because of how fluid it is. Quite a coup to get these cats to remix French pop.
Bellamy’s falsetto and the bass runs no longer seem like explorations into neo-classical territory, but these are fine tunes, despite their transparent streaks.