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Perhaps inspired by the experimental drum'n'bass being created by
(a recent signee to his
label),
' third major-label album as
was his first to work with jungle -- though, to his credit, he had released the breakbeat EP
almost a year earlier. Contemporaries
and
were beginning to incorporate moderate use of drum'n'bass in their work as well, but this album was more extreme than virtually all jungle being made at the time. The beats are jackhammer quick and even more jarring considering what is -- for the most part -- laid over the top: the same fragile, slow-moving melodies that characterized
's earlier ambient works. Most overtly disturbing is
the first straight-ahead vocal track from
; the song is a child-like ode that gradually deteriorates into a bizarre fantasy concerning the milkman's wife. With all
's curious idiosyncracies, though,
is a very listenable record and a worthy follow-up to
. [The American issue features the English EP "Girl/Boy."] ~ John Bush