Nearly as astonishing as 1998's excellent Making Bones, Red Snapper's third full album again finds the instrumental trio comping over a wealth of great musical ideas wedded to dub, soul-jazz, big-beat, disco, even hard rock.
"Shellback" features a pounding Zeppelin breakbeat from drummer Richard Thair and a processional bassline of Ali Friend setting up vocalist Karime Kendra, who floats serenely over the entire production.
Kendra resurfaces elsewhere, showing an enviable range by transforming herself into an extroverted diva for the breakbeat disco track "The Rough and the Quick." "The Rake" is a torrid beatbox-funk number with a nasally vocal effect straight out of P-Funk, while "Bussing," "Belladonna," and "They're Hanging Me Tonight" are atmospheric groove cuts with more allegiance to a classic jazz unit like Weather Report than any trip-hop act out there.
Red Snapper never appear to run out of ideas or energy, and excellent production and recording unite the disparate styles into a jewel of an album.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keeping Pigs TogetherAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 05:22 | 12 MB | 37 MB |
| 2 | ShellbackAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 05:43 | 13 MB | 39 MB |
| 3 | Don't Go NowhereAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 04:49 | 11 MB | 32 MB |
| 4 | The RakeAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 05:14 | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | BussingAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 05:24 | 12 MB | 35 MB |
| 6 | I Stole Your CarAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 04:15 | 9 MB | 31 MB |
| 7 | BelladonnaAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 04:27 | 10 MB | 21 MB |
| 8 | They're Hanging Me TonightAli Friend, Richard Thair | Red Snapper | Play | 06:09 | 14 MB | 42 MB |
| 41 mins | 94 MB | |||||
| 36 mins | 239 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Ayers | Guitar |
| 2 | Tim Burrell | Mastering |
| 3 | Ali Friend | Bass (Electric), Composer, Double Bass |
| 4 | Andy Green | Engineer, Mixing Engineer |
| 5 | Mark Haley | Engineer |
| 6 | Karime Kendra | Vocals |
| 7 | Mark McGuire | Engineer |
| 8 | Hugo Nicholson | Engineer, Mixing, Producer |
| 9 | Spiros Politis | Photography |
| 10 | Red Snapper | Engineer, Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 11 | Richard Thair | Composer, Drums, Turntables |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |