Who Can You Trust?

I first heard Morcheeba's "Tape Loop" on one of my chill-out mixes a long time ago. But when I stopped listening to the mix after a few weeks, I sadly forgot all about them. However, after a four-year hiatus, I gave Morcheeba a second listen (quite by accident) a few weeks ago while on vacation with some friends. One of our group had brought with him this CD, on which I was immediately hooked. Morcheeba's debut album is hypnotic, trippy, quiet, and beautiful. The CD provides excellent backgroud chillout music. Comparable to Massive Attack and Portishead, Morcheeba features a whispery, female lead singer (Skye Edwards) and a host of electronic, ambient grooves. Starting with "Moog Island" the CD quickly sets the quiet and hypnotic tone with Skye's haunting voice and deep, calm baselines. The disc continues in a similar fashion with "Trigger Hippie," before breaking into the basy, quiet instrumental interlude of "Post Humous." Next is "Tape Loop," which was just as cool as I had remembered it to be. The trippy ambience continues flawlessly until it is interupted by the down-home sounds of "Enjoy the Wait," the minute-long eighth track on the set. It may take a few times, but it's subtle electronic wave in the background just might catch your ear and change your uneasy reaction for the better. The next track, the quiet and powerful "Col" featuring Skye's voice at it's whispery best, starts the experience all over agian and it continues perfectly through the end of the CD. This has become one of my favorite chillout CDs. It's mellow all the way through and is the perfect CD to listen to at the end of a long day, or for sitting outside with a frosty beverage trying to forget your cares. Highly recommened to anyone who needs to relax.

This album is just a classic. Every song is good, the flow and tempo of the record are outstanding, the vocals are spot on and lyrically it is wonderful. Simply a record that everyone who loves good music needs. Period. Get it.

This, along with Massive Attack, is the most indicative band of the genre of Trip-hop from the 90s. This album is going away their best album. Unfortunately they did not really come close to ever topping this work. A near perfect album.

Who Can You trust is Morcheeba's first major effort and it's a strong one. Standout tracks for me include "Trigger Hippie" and "Tape Loop," which both should be part of any right-thinking trip-hop mix. The first two-thirds of the disc move consistently and well, giving way to a quiet and gloomy atmosphere in the latter part of the album. This disc and Big Calm both make me think of the old early 70's soul albums and of early, early Funkadelic. This Manchester band was a big part of the extraordinary flowering of musical talent out of that city in the nineties. This disc and Big Calm are the two essential CDs to get by this band.

I bought this album when it was first released. I played it so much that I finally had to buy another copy! They implement various elements of different music genres to create their own sound. Try it!

Ageless, timeless, just plain beautiful music! I was first introduced to Morcheeba watching la femme Nikita and fell in love with it! Easy, Smooth, Morcheeba delivers a lovely groove! A little Techno, a little Jazz...you're gonna love this!

Great album!

Its A really deep cd............and actually im into the harded faster music like godsmack ect.