Author: Fun Lovin' Criminals

Format: Import

Release Date: 05-03-2001

Details: Product Description 2001 album for the alternative rap/rock act, best known fortheir hit 'Scooby Snacks'. 14 tracks including the first single and title track, 'Loco', 'Where The Bums Go', 'The Biz', 'Run Daddy Run' and 'Half A Block'. Standard jewelcase. Amazon.ca Fun Lovin' Criminals have always been a talented, sensitive band who undermine themselves by their insistence that they are actually suave gangsters and wiseguys who, should you cross them, will ensure that you "sleep with da fishes". Maybe this schtick worked as an initial attention-grabbing device, but it's surely now time to drop the horses' heads and violin cases and just be the tremendous band they frequently are. Loco (it's a shame about the unimaginative title) contains some very bizarre snippets and much truly excellent music. The opening punky splurge "Where The Bums Go" is plain daft and suggests a cack-handed Ramones tribute band, but the title track (and ad soundtrack) is FLCs at their finest, a sly and languid slice of cool, knowing funk. And so it goes on: "Run Daddy Run" finds them donning their frayed streetwise threads again, but "Half a Block" is ruminative and endearingly graceful. They get cooler and better as the album progresses; "Underground" is a beauteous pledge of love and friendship and the closing "Little Song" is expansive and warm. So, ignore the "plastic gangster" hype: there is gorgeous, considered music here. --Ian Gittins

UPC: 724353147129

EAN: 0724353147129

Languages: english

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood