Stereo MCs - Double Bubble

The Brixton boys are back! Tailsmen & statesmen of the UK dance music scene Rob Birch & Nick Hallam, aka the Stereo MCs, return with their latest genre-surfing opus, Double Bubble, which is released through their own Graffiti Recordings label.

Having spent the past two years holed up in their frontline studio honing and updating their sound, Double Bubble, unquestionably a Stereo MCs record, wastes no time as opening track Get On It sets the sound foundations for the album which is, without doubt, their most diverse record yet. With its P-Funking introduction, blistering drumbeats and Rob's lean lyrical vignettes, Get On It is brimming with energy and stamps the bands return to action with bold authority. Moving on, the album shows no sign of letting up as the pace of the urban chronicles of City Lights, and electronic stomp of The Here & Now both destined to appeal to aficionados of the band. Indeed, with their booming crescendos and, in particular, influential production from Tic Toc, the album steadily builds into an electronic masterpiece.

Escalating vigour track-by-track, the album's first fruit Gringo, which appeared in dub form on their recent club inspired Hotplate EP, immediately establishes itself as a no-holds-barred, pure-of-purpose club track. Bold east-meets-west production mixed with a call to arms style vocal from Rob, Gringo signals the introduction to a brand new kinetic drum edit style sound for the band, and with each successive build and drop, and with the tracks surreal virtual reality inspired video already proving to be an online viral sensation, it's clear that the Stereo MCs forward momentum is growing rapidly. No more so is that the case than on Black Gold, the album's first full single, which demonstrates the more fiery and anthemic side of the Stereos - Hook-laden with razor sharp beats and melancholic synths in the very least it's fresh sounding, and comfortably puts them back in the kind of crowd-pleasing ball park of previous hits Connected and Deep, Down & Dirty.
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