Antidote - What Mountain?

Tuesday 1st December 1998
Antidote - What Mountain?

STYLE: Dance/Electronic
RATING 6 6 6 6 6 6
OUR PRODUCT CODE: 11797-CAS1935
LABEL: N Soul
FORMAT: CD Album
ITEMS: 1

Reviewed by Andy Cooper

This is an interesting CD. Production quality needs smoothing out a little, which may be why this CD isn't on general release. All the same, it contains some nice musical soundscapes, grooves and vibes. A comparison to Portished and Goldie in mellower moods should give you a general idea of how this project sounds. There are retro synth sounds, squelchy bass noises and hypnotic trippy rhythms, accompanying vulnerable, trancey female vocals which deliver short, repetitive phrases of sometimes vague, sometimes spiritual lyrics. But is it good? Well, it has its moments, like the song "Everywhere I Go" or one of the more lively tunes (though not necessarily overflowing with energy), "Love" which simply repeats the phrase "God is love" over and over again! Even so, many of the nine tunes on offer just go on too long (only one is shorter than six minutes). The interesting slowly turns into the irritating, the laid back into the sleepy, the repetitive into the rambling. But never mind, as this is still a significant CD, showing a lot of potential for Christians into trip-hop and other experimental forms of dance music.

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