Top of the range BMW's glide effortlessly to a standstill on gravel drives in
deepest Umbria. Fashionably bedraggled couples canoodle over
pistachio nuts in pine-scented loft spaces on the Hoxton
borders. Yup, it's Faithless, back with yet more horizontal lounge-soul
for graphic designers.
Unfathomably popular in the same way as the Lighthouse Family
and the property ladder, Faithless, or so we are led to believe,
occupy a higher level of consciousness normally only attainable by Trappist
monks, yoga instuctors and viewers of 'The Late Review'. What
this actually means is that we get a thumping drum track, some meandering
ambient keyboards and Rollo mumbling spidery extracts from his
diaries over the top of it. Sample lyric: 'Down in the shadows of your
deepest secrets/I sleep next to the precepts you hold most dear'. Arrgh!
So soberly self-satisfied it makes you want to strap yourself onto the front of
a speeding tank playing Oasis at full-tilt whilst juggling live
hand grenades. Pays the mortgage, though...
Jason Fox
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