Customer Reviews
Hauntingly beautiful album-I urge you to buy it! - By: Someone, 14 Jul 2008 
This album is absolutely brilliant. Vocally, it is pure genius, & musically it is perfectly timed. I have just bought this album, as a replacement for the one I lostin my mispent teenage times! It`s jst as great as I remember it being (unlike many of my music purchases of the 90`s)
end of the evening sheer pleasure. - By: mia farrow, 21 Apr 2008 put this on after you have got rid of all the losers or u have made it home from the pub.
it oooooozes class.
Totally depressive, worthless noise. - By: Dino, 03 Dec 2007 
I bought this recently & will never play it again. totally unmusical & the lead singers vocals are well over rated. i can think of many far better singers. nothing on this album is original.
i cant see how this album became so well rated on amazon.
Alien Heart - By: John Tree, 22 Sep 2006 This band came from the same Bristol incubator as Massive Attack & Tricky, & there is the same dreamy Trip-Hoppy character here. Where they part company is the cold steely atmosphere Portishead muster.
Beth Gibbons voice is the thing that defines the sound. Simultaneously bruised, almost wretched, yet super-cool, her vocal delivery is almost jazz tinged & brings out complex emotions. This debut album is a remakably strong collection of tunes with few weak links.
The music is creatively quirky, utilising Hip Hop, Jazz, atmospheric pads, breaks, angular beats & disjointed guitar. This is alien, but not alienating stuff, & it still sounds real cool & cutting edge now, withstanding endless repeat listens. File under Brilliant Alien Trip Hop.
A genre defining classic - By: David Johnson, 15 Mar 2006 This beautifully haunting record is one of those indispensables that any serious music fan hasin their collection. I remember being completely blown away by the originality the first time I heard it. The punchy, nuerotic beats & the cold distant voice of Beth Gibbons. I guess if you could refer to trip-hop as a genre, this has to be it´s signature album.
"Mysterons," sounds like a martian landing, Gibbon´s distinctive voice unfurls the track with a steely brittleness. This music sounds purposefully distant & edgy. I like the curling beat on the second track,"Sour times." My personal favourite has to be the intro to the pulsating beat on,"strangers."
"It´s a fire," is the only track that sounds slightly out of place. It is the only track on the album that sounds like something you may have heard before.
The ranging,"Roads," is another extremely inventive track that preludes the classic,"glory box." Gibbons sounds like a battered, wounded woman on this song. Her lyrical approach is totally unique.
What more can I say about this? It´s engaging, strangely distant but at the same time thoroughly seductive. A must buy.
