Search - Adrian Sherwood :: Becoming A Cliche

Hardly a Cliche...

Jarret S. Lovell | costa mesa, ca | 04/16/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Funny, but while much electronic and dub music certainly can become cliche, Adrian Sherwood has managed throughout his career to take both genres in very new directions. The present release is no exception. For those less than impressed with his first solo outing "Never Trust a Hippy" (which took a while to grow on me), "Becoming a Cliche" delivers immediately and magnificiently. The bass lines are more pronounced, with each song delivering a whopping hook carried throughout each track, layered with samples, amazing beats, and trippy keyboards. The addition of vocals is also a plus, with a restrained Lee Perry opening the disc. And for those familiar with the realworld label, there's plenty of world music added to the mix to make this a perfect fit for the catalog. Disc 2 features dub versions (variations, really) of disc 1, plus some extra features. Defintely worth it. For fans of ON-U-Sound or realworld, this disc is a must."

The Almighty Sequoia...Glowing!!!

zeriab sufi | sitaresque@hotmail.com | 02/18/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"...A piece on the earth...

Sherwood's music identifies itself as the geometric chaos.. So fractal.. So continues... The tracks are arranged in a circular way so that it keeps looping forever as far as your whirling sound system accepts digital muses!

Praising the CD will definitely make it sound as a commercial piece of art while its in reality a work of maturity and innovation regarding the techniques and the musical philosophy involved ...Becoming a Cliché is standing alone surrounded with many other Dub dreams...I can say that the feelings which are "secreted"! while listening are the same as the light reflected inside a falling water drop.. Towards a running blue...blue...river..

...Enjoy sailing...

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Massive Sound

Hidethesky | Detroit | 08/10/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The sound is Massive. The sound is Awesome. You'll want to turn your speakers way up to physically feel the bass.

I was disappointed with his first solo outing, Never Trust A Hippy, but here he is back on familiar ground with some (if not all) of the usual suspects. Lee Perry is here, Mark Stewart is here, Gregorian chant is here, the sitar is back and so are other familiar found source samples. All this wrapped up with a driving mix of reggae, drum and bass rhythms and flawless dub production."