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Album Review: Morcheeba - Head Up High

Ben Preece

Opener Gimme Your Love emanates a variation of their staple trip-hop sound, while subsequent tracks touch on shiny house (Face Of Danger), swirling reggae (Make Believer) and outright mistakes (Call It Love).

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Over 18 years in the biz hasn't really progressed Morcheeba much past 2002. Unlike the immaculate Charango, the album released that year, this 2013 version of the British trio is back where it should be personnel-wise (lynchpin lead singer Skye Edwards left the band from 2003 to 2010) but sonically, is less than consistent and a quite confused affair. Opener Gimme Your Love emanates a variation of their staple trip-hop sound, while subsequent tracks touch on shiny house (Face Of Danger), swirling reggae (Make Believer) and outright mistakes (Call It Love).