No Protection: Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor
Artist: Massive Attack
Community Score: 7.35

Protection was widely considered a disappointing follow-up to Massive Attack's groundbreaking debut, Blue Lines. Where their debut bent all of the conventional hip-hop, dub reggae, and soul rules, Protection essentially delivered more of the same. Perhaps that's the reason why Mad Professor's remix of the album, No Protection, was welcomed with... Read More

Tesko Suicide/Post-Modern Sleaze
Artist: Sneaker Pimps
Community Score: 5.00
Becoming X
Artist: Sneaker Pimps
Community Score: 8.23

Becoming X is one of the most engaging byproducts of post-Portishead trip-hop. While the Sneaker Pimps don't have the doomed romanticism of Portishead or the nasty experimental tendencies of Tricky, they have a cool sense of pop hooks and an edgier guitar attack than their predecessors. "Tesko Suicide" moves along with jagged guitars and... Read More

My Kingdom
Artist: The Future Sound of London
Community Score: 8.00

Feeling the waters in early '96 with a typically anonymous 12-inch entitled "We Have Explosive," FSOL mark their follow-up this time, both lexically and stylistically, by returning to the dense forest of sonic abstraction characteristic of their earlier work. Unlike "Explosive"'s abrasive amyl-house vibe, "Kingdom" brings together the lush... Read More

In Sides
Artist: Orbital
Community Score: 8.11

In Sides isn't Orbital's best album, or their most accomplished, but it is the most definitive. It pulses with the energy of the debut, the lush flow of the second, and the conceptual theme of Snivilisation. The focus this time, though, is ecology. "The Girl With the Sun in Her Head" was recorded on a Greenpeace bus using only solar power, and... Read More