High Society

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Customer reviews

review by: pete_991 date: 2006-10-02 rating:
Just awesome
Before buying this cd i'll be honest DnB was not a musical genre I really enjoyed but this album has changed my mindset on it totally...this cd is just incredible. From start to finish its beautifully mixed up with vocals and effects but still retaining the thumping bass lines that just add to the experience! Easily the best album of the year for me...highly recommended!

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review by: date: 2006-08-10 rating:
My favouite album ever?
This album is sheer class. Start to finish.
If I was banished to a desert island and could only take one album with me, High Society would get the nod ahead of Leftism. Oh yes.

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review by: king_los date: 2005-07-13 rating:
reality check - something new?
the problem with any set of reviews for a DnB album - you will always get one 'purist' who will demonstrate their DnB credentials by:
a. automatically slate anything with vocals. (especially female vocals. misogyny - i think so.)
b. slate anything which doesn't comply with the standard laws of jungle - the rigid contraints that are choking the genre and making it very samey, dull and uninspired.

NB: anything not by ed rush or optical will automatically get slated. if in doubt - please also check any review of kosheen and lamb.

'high contrast' is clearly trying to mess around with the form, add his own flavour to the proceedings, and generally do something new with DnB. this is commendable. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. when it doesn't - yes, it can be pretty weak. but when 'high contrast' gets it right - man, it is really really good. the two highlights IMO are the malevolent eighties-inflected 'natural high' and the soulful (but pretentiously named!) 'twightlights last gleaming'.

overall - the mis-steps are not as embarassing as some would have you beleive, the standard is pretty high, and the highs are remarkable.

if you are window-lickingly contented with the standard jungle format, set 10 years ago and utterly unchanged ever since - then look elsewhere. if you are a bit more open-minded about DnB, and want something that is a bit more commercial, without being subversive pop, then look no further. and check out this album - it contains some real quality.

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review by: date: 2005-04-11 rating:
Back to the drawing board
Most D&B albums end up gathering dust in my sitting-room very quickly, so every time I listen to one prior to buying it I try to imagine myself playing it incessantly, but that never happens, and true to form this album is already dust gathering. On a positive note 'Racing Green' should be the music to a family car advert it is so catchy. 'Lovesick' and 'Tutti Frutti' also have a catchy touch of poppiness to them. But the rest are highly forgettable. Every D&B album has to have a stinker or two - ' Angels and Fly' is a horrendously crap female rap tune scrambling for street-cred. That makes you start to wonder about quality control. But there is worse - Track 10 'Only two can play' should be on an Italian porn film soundtrack. Someone at Hospital Records quality dept. should be taken out and shot for this aural insult.
Basically, don't buy the album, it only has two or three good tracks and an abundance of very bad ones. Not to be totally negative about the Hospital label, I would recommend London Elektricity's Billion Dollar Gravy as an antidote to this misery. Back to the drawing board...


review by: date: 2005-03-22 rating:
In A Word Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!
Wow What an album! I'm hoping to buy 'True Colors' soon and If it's half as good as this album then my feet will be bruised from all the jumping. It's hard to believe that so much emotion can be put into a dance album but this genious has done it. From the enphatic happiness of 'Racing Green' and 'Lovesick' to the dramatic 'Twighlights last gleaming'. The vocal tracks are vastly different showing Lincoln's great versitilaty. My personal favourite is 'Only two can play'. I was on the drum n bass arena website the other day and Mr. Barett had two tracks in the top ten of 2004. I'm not surprised. The only track i did not like on this album was 'yesterdays coluors'( bit pants really). Anyway, 'High society' I say buy it. Even if your not a great fan of d n b. It's soulful, meaningful, lucious music with great melodies and basslines. i love it.

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