Blimey, a third record in three months that samples a language lesson for conversational French — in this case in the track Transmitting Live from Mars — to follow Pere Ubu and the Yellow Magic Orchestra. I didn't know I had that many French lesson samples in my entire collection: are there any more, I wonder?
I don't think I'd heard anything on this album when I bought it. I used to use the NME's end-of-year critics' poll — along with John Peel's festive fifty — as a way of catching up with the new stuff that I'd missed during the year. I'm pretty sure this was the NME's No.1 album of 1989, and I got it on the basis of that and what the NME said about them (re-inventing hip hop with the softer 'daisy age' ethos).
As far as the album goes, I don't have much to add. As you may have spotted, I don't really do rap, even rap-lite like this. My weakness, my blind spot. (I'm still working on it, now and then.)
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