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Breaks Co-Op are not a hybrid of Kwik Fit and Co-Op diversifying into music collaborations, rather an amalgamation of minds. Three individuals with a shared vision of creating beautiful music for beautiful people, natch. As an aside, one of the three is none other than Radio 1’s King of hyperbole and product of the Kids Against Noel Coward Elocution School, Mr. Zane Lowe. Having released the electronicy ‘Roofers’ in 1997 to much acclaim in well, New Zealand, minus the talents of current vocalist, the sexily named ‘Andy Lovegrove’ they took an indefinite hiatus worthy of that taken by At The Drive In or All Saints.
Come 2006 and the need to create an epic breathless landscape of sounds encompassing their influences of Marvin Gaye, Tortoise and Morcheeba amongst others, the guys got together and set down some beats for ‘The Lovegrove’ to vocalize his sweet sorrow over. Exemplified beautifully on several tracks but indelible prints of moments can be best found on the album’s opener and album title track. ‘’The Sound Inside’ and ‘The Otherside’
Little touches of production are suggested throughout with the deft slices of ‘speakeasy’ creating cohesion from one moment to the next. The dream-like track ‘Duet’ hangs with delicate harmony and lazy beats and soothing nuances of slide guitar. This album is one of those that requires you to be in a certain mindset, perhaps a chemically altered mindset, if that is your modus operandi. It will wash over you as one sound with several movements, like music used to in the olden days. Memorable and stand out tracks are by no means in abundance, this is a sum of all parts creating one hell of a whole. It makes you want to do stuff like that horrible American sentiment that sounds like a laxative…This rather sassy record is ‘Chillaxing’.
Reviewed by James Ainsworth
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