Fila Brazillia, Jump Leads - 58m 12s

Tracks & Durations

1. Bumblehaun	6:00
2. Motown Coppers	4:41
3. Spill the Beans	4:26
4. DNA	6:53
5. We Build Arks	3:50
6. It's a Knockout	6:32
7. Monk's Utterance	5:41
8. Percival Quintaine	4:52
9. Nightfall	7:35
10. Mother Nature's Spies	3:45
11. The Green Green Grass of Homegrown	3:49

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Review

At first play, the eighth album by Fila Brazillia's Steve Cobby and Dave McSherry seems to have lost the invigorating flow of past records like Black Market Gardening and Power Clown. Arriving after the aromatic hip-hop, jazz, and dub of Fila's recent mix record, Another Late Night, the first half of Jump Leads, by contrast, sounds like one synth with only five presets working overtime. The tracks use similar jerking funk beats and cheesy '80s keyboard effects, creating a faux electro club sound. "Bumblehaun" and "Motown Coppers" bounce clumsily to the disco but are trumped by "Spill the Beans," which sounds like a drunken man fronting The Commodores. The mood remains static until "It's a Knockout," which thankfully rescues Leads with an airy Brazilian groove, John Barry-ish harpsichord, trumpet flourishes, and an eerie African vocal sample. After the brooding "Monk's Utterance," the fun continues with soaring Afro-boogaloo vibrations on "Percival Quintaine" and a glowing African folk choir on the wondrous "Mother Nature's Spies." Not as overwhelmingly satisfying as earlier efforts, Jump Leads extends FB's muse with mixed results. --Ken MicallefConsidered a pre-cursor to the downbeat and trip hop movement, Fila Brazillia have explored the relationship between organic instrumentation and electronic sensibility throughout the 90's arriving logically at 'Jump Leads'. As pioneers of a post-punk northern England musicality, their journey has been defined simply by their musical insight rather than genre specification. Dub rhythms, house beats, drum n' bass syncopation, ambient chords, and funk arrangements have all found their way into Fila's sound without falling into the cliched territory of 'eclecticism'. 23 Records/Studio K7. 2002.

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