Track Listing

1. Man In A Garage featuring John Matthias
2. True Skool featuring Roots Manuva
3. Just For The Kick featuring Annette Peacock
4. Walk A Mile In My Shoes featuring Robert Owens
5. Mr. Nichols featuring Saul Williams
6. A Whistle And A Prayer featuring Andrew Broder (a.k.a. Fog)
7. Everything Is Under Control featuring Jon Spencer & Mike Ladd
8. Boogieman featuring Amiri Baraka
9. Aid Dealer featuring Soweto Kinch
10. This ISland Earth featuring Mpho Skeef
11. Colours the Soul featuring Dom Spitzer
12. Sound Mirrors

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #135848 in Music
• Released on: 2006-02-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Album Description
Their first proper LP in 8 years, JON MORE and MATT BLACK aka COLDCUT aka founders of NINJA TUNE, return with their best record to date. Featuring an all-star cast of vocalists including JON SPENCER, ROOTS MANUVA, MIKE LADD, SAUL WILLIAMS, AMIRI BARAKA, and more, this album shows off the variety of production styles Coldcut are capable of, and create a work of astounding achievement.

DJ Mag 4.5 out of 5 Album of the Month
"Sound Mirrors is alive with restless imagination... an essential return... top of their game delivering a kick in the intellect."

IDJ - 5 out of 5 Album of the Month
"Coldcut's standout talent underpins every part of this record… this lot can still cut it."

Customer Reviews

Superb
This is without question an essential album for any complete music collection. It is everything from repetitive drum lines to harmonically complex tunes. It contains everything from indie rock (man in a garage) to lyric free electronic (sound mirrors) to almost rap-esque (true skool). The lyrics are anything from spoken word (mr. nichols) to the more melodic end of the spectrum (walk a mile in my shoes).

This album is incredibly diverse and while I cannot speak for everyone I can say for myself that in spite of the fact that I generally lean towards electronic music, I definitely consider this to be the best album in my collection.

If you don't like it on first listen (and I assure you, I was initially disappointed) give it a chance and listen to it again because it grows on you like some kind of infectious virus and will undoubtedly turn into a favorite in good time.

Purists, please, give it another listen
I have to agree with Tone School, this album is definitely worthy of being called great. I've been listening to Ninja Tune, especially Coldcut, since '96, and have been nothing but amazed by the progressions of its artists. It would be absolutely boring for Coldcut, the forerunners of the Ninja Tune label to just keep on doing the same stuff they've done in the past. Who cares if it's not as abstract as some of their previous works? Sometimes its nice to cut loose and have a little fun. At least give these guys props for producing what sounds like an immaculate recording with some fantastic beats.

disappointment
I've beena fan of Coldcut for sometime but this new album is nowhere near the quality of prior release. gone are the cut-ups and abstract hip hop feel. these are all traditional songs. the main problem is their choice of singers and lameness of the songs sung. An instrumental version of this cd would be much better. I listened to it maybe twice and will most likely not dig it out again. I've tried to like it but it justs sounds too much like their trying to be played on the radio.