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Sneaker Pimps | Bloodsport
Sneaker Pimps are excitement and pure adrenaline with fierce shots
of psychedelic trance.
CD, Tommy Boy Music
Tekst: Theo Ploeg
Publicatiedatum: 25 juni 2002
To my complete astonishment, Sneaker Pimps are always compared with Tricky and Portishead. Maybe because their first album Becoming X was released in 1996, just after Maxinquaye and Dummy. But Sneaker Pimps are nothing like trip-hop. Sneaker Pimps are excitement and pure adrenaline with fierce shots of psychedelic trance. Even when they are doing things slow-like, as in their hit single 6 Underground. That makes them much more related to acts like Hybrid and BT.
Sneaker Pimps are North Englanders Chris Corner and Liam Howe, who made two brilliant albums (Becoming X and Splinter) with Kelli Dayton. Kelli became the trademark of Sneaker Pimps, with her angel-like, desperate vocals. Not an entirely fair statement, because it was mostly Howe and Corner's strange mixture of pop music that made Sneaker Pimps special. Resulting in psychedelic, down-y pop songs. After Dayton left the band (during recording for Splinter), Sneaker Pimps made some excellent remixes but released no new material. Up till now. Bloodsport is their third album and their most commercial. With Corner taking care of most of the vocals, Sneaker Pimps sound like an American alternative rock band being remixed by, for example, ehh, Sneaker Pimps themselves. Making them less experimental, but not less interesting. Though their music may sound a lot more accessible, it remains unreal, almost estranging. The title track, for instance, directly refers to eighties synth wave, while opener Kiro TV sounds like industrials Pitchshifter. In other tracks Corner and Howe (and fifth band member Ian Pickering, plus guest singers Sue Denim and Zoe Durrant) are making some exciting, down-tempo dance music mixed with acoustic instruments (Sick) or fuzzy acid and progressive elements. Bloodsport may seem more one-dimensional and less experimental than Splinter and Becoming X, but just like those albums, it brings a postmodern vision to indie music. A vision of rock, dance, and trance nicely blended together in an estranging piece of sweet-sounding, commercial pop music. Watch your teeth.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/sneaker-pimps/bloodsport/1642/
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