Red Snapper - 'Red Snapper' (Lo)
3/5
By: Toby L
There's a magic to these here grooves. Jazz, in the most modern and trendy sense of the genre, is all around, and so the feeling grows with Red Snapper's latest, self-titled studio (and live) album.
Whilst as compellingly understated as music gets, Rich, Ali and David's final work together (Remember? They split up, don't tour anymore, etc.) won't change minds of those that already perceive their produce as a patchwork of tenuously existing traces of sculpted boringness, yet will dumbfound and elevate a fan-base already assured of their enduring dance-legend.
Commonly, the threesome fascinate ('Downsizing'), sometimes surprise (the Roni Size-tinged 'The Tunnel'), and exceptionally haunt (the, frankly, scary bass and starkness of 'Four Dead Monks'), but, really, you know what you're getting from the offset, and such a pre-determined stature can often serve as irritatingly predictable as it is reassuring, the first half of the record no way nearly as daring as the rest... So 'Dnipro' and 'Heavy Petting' may have interesting titles - but does this warrant enough?
Lest it be remembered, however - they're unlikely to enter a studio again any time soon to proceed forth with further RS activities - they're up to their eyeballs in solo-projects, studio-running, club-nights and goodness knows what else now. Thus, treating this as their last compendium of tracks, at least the 'Snapper have signed off diligently, and at a level that their fan-base will cherish as much as their formative works. Besides, there have certainly been more disappointing bow-outs than this.
Artists in this article: Red Snapper
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