Singer Skye Edwards returned to Morcheeba after a two-album absence for 2010′s Blood Like Lemonade, and evidently she’s back for good, since the English electronic trio have announced another LP with the vocalist. Head Up High is out in the UK on October 14 through [PIAS] Recordings.
The album features guest appearances from Chali 2na (Jurassic 5), James Petralli (White Denim), Rizzle Kicks, Ana Tijoux and Nature Boy. This is the band’s eighth full-length album overall.
The biggest changes in the band’s sound, though, are provided by the retrained post-dub step elements coming through in some songs such as the wobbly synth bass underpinning the urgent dancehall throb of “Make Believer”, and the jerky rhythm of the bittersweet “To the Grave”,…
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…a song about guilty secrets. In the elastic, buzzy synths of “Hypnotized”, which in typical Morcheeba manner, blends Paul’s turntable scratches and Ross’s bluesy guitar and harmonica into a piece that defies simple genre description – all the more so for the fiery Spanish rap by Ana Tijoux, whom Paul first encountered watching an episode of Breaking Bad.
1. Gimme Your Love
2. Face of Danger
3. Call It Love
4. Under the Ice
5. I’ll Fall Apart
6. Make Believer
7. Release Me Now
8. To Be
9. Hypnotized
10. To the Grave
11. Do You Good
12. Finally Found You