Certain Ratio - Early (Bonus CD)
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Artist: Certain RatioEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2002-06-11
Music Label: Soul Jazz
Soundtracks:
- Do The Du
- Flight
- Waterline
- Shack Up
- The Fox
- Blown Away
- Gum
- Lifes A Scream
- Skipscada
- Knife Slits Water
- Sounds Like Something Dirty
- Touch
- Saturn
- All Night Party (orginal 7" Single)
- Faceless (Graveyard And Ballroom)
- Do The Du (John Peel Session 1979)
- All Night Party (John Peel Session1979)
- Flight (John Peel Session 1979)
- Choir (John Peel Session 1979
- Skipscada (John Peel Session 1981)
- Felch (original NYC Mix)
- Abracadubra (Sir Horatio 12)
- Tumba Rhumba (7" Single B-side)
- Si Fermir O Grido (touch Cassette)
- Tribeca Video
Music reviews of Early (Bonus CD)
Music Review: A disappointing piece that offers little beyond what one expects from the 1980s
Rating: 2 Stars
I was introduced to A Certain Ratio after I had gorged the childlike innocence of ESG and the spontaneous, intense post-funk of Liquid Liquid. A Certain Ratio were reissued on the same label as ESG and I had strong hopes that they would provide another angle to the post-funk sound that was a generally-overlooked but very interesting part of the underground of the 1980s.
Unfortunately, in comparison to the two great groups mentioned above, A Certain Ratio have none of the passion or charm needed to make their sound hold up and be interesting for the music listener. Instead of relying on simple, sparse bass-and-drum rhythms as ESG did or tight, densely locked grooves as Liquid Liquid did, A Certain Ratio took far too many of the worst clichés of more mainstream 1980s music. Although their music does not sound in any way like the pompous sound of commercial music of the eighties, it still does possess a synthesised sound that can best be described as dated - and at times, as on "Sounds Like Something Dirty", the band does indeed move into territory which is really at the worst end of 1980s bad taste. Even when they stya free of these influences, they never have the emotion or beauty of ESG or Liquid Liquid's spontaneity.
Another bad problem for A Certain Ratio is Simon Topping's annoying voice. He might wish to sound very much like a soul singer - far from an unknown trait among white musicians of the period - but he never pulls it up and ends up sounding like the worst kind of pop singer from the modern age. Never does his voice possess the solidity necessary to make the low pitches he uses sound at all touching or compelling. With a more deeply emotional singer the material on "Early" would definitely have potential, but with the echo-y singing it feels very annoying.
All in all, it is best to stick with ESG or Liquid Liquid of you want really good post-funk.
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Description of Early (Bonus CD)
UK compilation for the dance floor oriented alternative act, culled from their years with the Factory label. Includes a free CD featuring rare sessions, B-sides & 12 inch singles plus the video 'Tribeca' a film by Michael Shamberg of ACR in New York City, 1980. Housed in a slipcase.Alternative Rock CDs
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