Barking -- Some general thoughts

[baddy2shoos]

Scribble is the album highlight for me because of High Contrast. He nails it everytime.

I think there's too much going on on the album in general...Karl's vocals just get drowned out by the predictable peaktime house/generic beats.

There's no space to let tracks evolve like on the previous albums and is it me or does Juanita's vocals (I'm guessing it's still her...) sound very laboured and pretentious or is that the point??

I think they were going in the right direction with OWB...they showed they could manage without Darren Emerson. They certainly didn't pick the most interesting, experimental producers/djs that are around (apart from Appleblim maybe). What about people like Matthew Dear or Richie Hawtin...much more relevant and fresh, surely?

I'm all for upfront singalong UW tracks...but they really do sound very generic and brash in places.

It's a grower hopefully.