Groove Armanda - Lovebox (2002)

FORMATO: CD
AÑO: 2002

CANCIONES:
 1 Purple Haze
 2 Groove Is On
 3 Remember (*)
 4 Madder
 5 Think Twice...
 6 Final Shakedown
 7 Hands Of Time
 8 Tuning In (Rewritten)
 9 Easy
10 Lovebox
11 But I Feel Good

MÚSICOS:
Sandy Denny: Cantante
Richie Havens: Cantante
Neneh Cherry: Cantante
B.J. Cole: Pedal Steel 
The London Community Gospel Choir: Coros
Red Rat: Cantante
Andy Cato: Bajo, piano, guitarra, trombón, Fender Rhodes 
Tim Hutton: Cantante
Rachael Brown: oros
Tom Findlay: Trompeta
Nappy Roots: Cantante
Sunshine Anderson: Cantante
Urban Soul Orchestra: Cuerda

NOTAS:
(*) Sandy Denny aparece en un fragmento de "Autopsy" del álbum Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking. Este álbum es una recopilación de canciones con nuevas mezclas un tanto experimentales, desde luego Sandy está reconocible.
El año 2003 se editó un Cd. con el contenido de este y nuevos temas.
Comentarios del Cd. en AMG:
Though Groove Armada's Andy Cato and Tom Findlay have been justly praised for their production talents, the duo's fourth album, Lovebox, takes them much too far down the path of production gloss, right on into the field of bland MOR electronica. It's a staler, tradder version of 2001's Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub), which was pretty middle-of-the-road on its own. The opener, "Purple Haze," features Nappy Roots backed by a restrained guitar grind, but the pair can't summon the righteous production skills that made "Suntoucher" (with Jeru the Damaja) the highlight of their previous record. Even Neneh Cherry sounds average and maudlin when she's shoved into the Groove Armada grinder, while Richie Havens (making a repeat appearance) contributes yet another deeply felt performance that resists making any kind of impression. "Final Shakedown" is downright derivative, ripping a page from the Basement Jaxx book, with a swinging, slapping house production and the ragga-tinged vocals of Red Rat. "Madder," the only track on the album performed by a band, is also the only one that doesn't sound calculated, riding a groove straight out of the Clash's "Magnificent Seven" and with a solid sung-spoken rap by M.A.D. The only other track that works well is "Remember," a gradually ascending epic with a sampled Sandy Denny vocal (lifted from Fairport Convention's Unhalfbricking) echoed by the affirmations of the London Community Gospel Choir. Sapping their tracks of any energy or creativity, Groove Armada have only their production smarts to fall onto, and it's simply not enough to distinguish the record. John Bush.

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