Q Review




January 2003 Issue

Full Review of Ian Brown's 'Remixes Of The Spheres'
POLYDOR
CD 065927-2 - 61:50 MINS


***

Combining the quality control blackspots of remix albums and Ian Brown should spell disaster. Surprisingly, these remixes of tracks from Brown's 2001 Music Of The Spheres album are better than anyone could reasonanly expect. Indeed, UNKLE actually improve F.E.A.R., drenching it in Will Malone's strings, while Freelance Hellraiser gives Northen Lights a thorough rattling and japanese-only studio cut Superstar occupies similarily celestial territory. Inevitably, the second half is bogged down in space-filling instruments but the album is considerably more coherent than Brown's cosmology..


Toby Manning

Hear this: Some tracks at
www.ianbrown-online.co.uk
Burn This: F.E.A.R. (UNKLE Remix)
Like this? Try this: UNKLE Psyence Fiction (MOWAX, 1998)


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