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Thursday, January 21st, 2016

Hooverphonic – Badaboum

In which Hooverphonic peel back the curtain on our trip-hop biases…


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Alfred Soto: Hooverphonic! Where’ve you been, crew? The strings and French bits and amiable anomie give it a Black Box Recorder ambience (does anyone care about Black Box Recorder?)
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Katherine St Asaph: The trip-hop revival no one wants to acknowledge delivereth once more! Too bad the parts of this that sound like “Eden” by Brigitte are exponentially better than the parts of this that just sound like disco-funk.
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John Seroff: Who knew there was room in my heart for a languid, spacier, bass-ier, Belgian trip-hop take on “Hit the Road, Jack”?
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Micha Cavaseno: Please leave fake-funky trip-hop back in the last decade along with the word “electronica,” would you kindly? I still struggle with the fact that there was a world where Air was successful and that people really genuinely liked those Kosheen albums.
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Thomas Inskeep: This doesn’t know if it wants to be acid jazz, trip-hop, or R&B and fails at all of it.
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Brad Shoup: I could do without 95% of the Venga-boums; they take away from Emilie Satt and the funky-house rhythm section. Overall, they’ve made a great atmosphere: it’s danceable but also clandestine.
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Iain Mew: More to come on teasing via uncompleted lines this time next week, but the awkward mood-interruption in place of the obvious “come” at the end of “I’m under his thumb and he’s making me…” marks the point where the overly stagy interplay between the two singers falls apart completely. A shame, because the bass and strings make for much better partners.
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11 Responses to “Hooverphonic – Badaboum”

  1. Thomas, on January 21st, 2016 at 5:24 pm Said:

    Alfred: no.
    Maxwell: OTM.

  2. katherine, on January 21st, 2016 at 6:04 pm Said:

    I care about Black Box Recorder.

  3. john, on January 21st, 2016 at 7:20 pm Said:

    I like the Air albums!

  4. Cassy, on January 22nd, 2016 at 1:01 am Said:

    i saw hooverphonic and went :D and then i saw maxwell’s review and went D:

  5. Tomás, on January 23rd, 2016 at 5:11 am Said:

    Air is iconic wtf. And they were never trip-hop.

    This is kinda mediocre though. :/

  6. Maxwell, on January 23rd, 2016 at 10:55 pm Said:

    Air is, unlike their namesake, worthless and toxic.

  7. edwardo, on January 24th, 2016 at 6:11 am Said:

    I always thought Air were not very good, but I love the entirety of Talkie Walkie. They’re just one of those groups that for me had one perfect album in them and I don’t need anything else.

    Hooverphonic’s back catalogue is often great, The Magnificent Tree in particular.

  8. john, on January 25th, 2016 at 7:24 am Said:

    act like you know: air gets a pass 4eva if only just for providing the matrix of cassius’ remix of “sexy boy”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDdOo184bho

  9. Tomás, on January 25th, 2016 at 8:07 am Said:

    I mean, sure, besides their debut album and Talkie Walkie, their actual albums have been weak, but worthless, as in, their //whole// body of work? Nah. :/

  10. Maxwell, on January 25th, 2016 at 2:43 pm Said:

    THE SEXY BOY REMIX IS THE WORST OMG

  11. john, on January 25th, 2016 at 4:42 pm Said:

    we’ll pray for you.

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