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COLDCUT - Sound Mirrors
| Playlouder |
| While it's unquestionably a glorious thing to have scribbled in your passport, we've long felt that being a member of Coldcut must be a trifle frustrating as a calling. After all, Jonathan More and Matt Black may always find themselves described as influential, with their Ninja Tune label perennially considered groundbreaking, but their ability to bring talent to the masses has rarely shone as much of late as it did in their heyday....full text |
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| Contactmusic |
| Let’s just say it right at the start. In “Sound Mirrors” Coldcut have made the best album of their long and illustrious career. It’s not something you can state lightly, but there you are. Their production has never sounded better, their ideas have never been more various or interesting, they’ve never had such a great cast of guests and then integrated them into their sound so well. Yes, it’s a record that is deeper, funkier, cleverer, more engaged and more engaging than anything they’ve done before. And, it follows from that, it’s deeper, funkier and cleverer than just about anything else around right now....full text |
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| Guardian |
| Coldcut's CV makes for a slightly exhausting read. In the past decade, Jonathan Moore and Matt Black have been responsible for running an award-winning club night, launched three record labels, produced art installations for the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, the Pompidou in Paris and the Barbican in London, won a Sony award for their radio show, designed "real time sample manipulation" software called VJamm, founded a pirate TV station and an educational website about video manipulation, designed a computer game called Top Banana, attempted to launch their own political party, produced a play for Radio 3 and a film for the British Antarctic Survey....full text |
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