Review: Coldcut’s Sound Mirrors

I finally decided to have some discipline with myself and apply this new forced focus to the task of actually reading this month’s issue of Wired. I don’t know why reading my favourite magazine has become such a difficult task for me, because I’m always pleasantly rewarded at least once everytime I pick up a copy. However, this is neither here nor there: my point is that I found Coldcut’s Sound Mirrors in Wired this month.

Wired calls Coldcut’s members remix legends. I don’t know if it’s true, being as this is the first and only time I’ve heard of the duo. However, if all of their work is as good as Stereo Mirrors, they’ve more than earned their title. The album is like a scalpel made of ice with its chilling edge. I picked up an import copy which included a second bonus disc worth of materials that I would recommend finding on your neighbourhood pork-based tracker.

To break it on down:

• Sounds like: Gorillaz interpretting the Prodigy as sung by Shirley Bassey with a vocorder
• Favourite track: “Man In a Garage (Feat. John Matthius)”
• Worst track: “Walk a Mile (Feat. Robert Owens)”
• Overrated: “Mr. Nichols (Feat. Saul Williams)”
• Best surprise: “Colours the Soul”