| Category | Rating |
|---|---|
| Track Structure | 10 |
| Interest | 9 |
| Melody | 9 |
| Performance | 9 |
| Lyrics | 10 |
| Enjoyment | 9 |
| Recording Quality | 9 |
| Commercial Appeal | 9 |
| Overall | 9.3 |
Addiction, ah let me count the ways.... See you in a couple of years :D
Way back in the day (wtf DOES that mean anyway?) when I was only
slightly younger and less crumbly than I am at present, I hung out on
an 'instant music' site. Not because I needed a quick fix, but
because - to my surprise - I found some very competent musicians on
their who were making anything but instant music. Rob Taylor (aka
El Bionico aka Knobby Knees aka Slippy) and I have known each other
since HUGE ferkin THINGS roamed the earth and made a moderators (yep,
that was me folks) job a nightmare-on-wheels, with attached Dolby
Surroundsound. Over the years that I've known him, Slippy has
grown and matured as a vocalist of great recognisability, one of those
singers you would know anywhere and with a string of great tracks to
his eternal credit.
Calm down, calm down missis... there'll be no more talk of HUGE ferkin THINGS OK?
One of the major joys of listening to this artist lies in his lyrical
content; a wordsmith of repute, Slippy mixes metaphors as easily as he
mixes instruments. Listening to one of his tracks is not complete
without following the story, and Slippy is one of those rare artists
who always posts his lyrics. Addiction is absolutely pure Slippy,
a funky, chunky music backing track covered with those velvet vocal
tones we know so well. If you are coming to Slippy fresh, as it
were, you will find an accomplished, sophisticated musician with a
wickedly deceptive style of singing that - at first - may be a bit
offputting. Give it some time, however, and you'll soon be
discovering the magical slippy effect; a relaxing of ear muscles, and a
flexing of brain cells.
Musically, Addiction pretty much floors me. Slick and triumphally
retro, it is a hot, steaming brew of funk that'll warm the cockles of
your heart (whatever they are). The space and size of the
mix will be the first that hits you, along with the bass-on-the-prod
and the triphammer beat. Spiced up by some very authentic guitar
riffs, the intro pads along nicely and you start to question if you are
going to be listening to that rare thing: a Slippy
Instrumental. Then around 1:20, the vocal slides down
your earholes like aural jelly, calming and restoring function in those
hard to reach bits in the corners. You lie back, grooving
along. You notice the stunning brasswork, the slick, eerily smoth
transitions, the (almost) flawless vocal harmonies - which has been a
major area of Slippy's work of late. A lovely R&B/Funk
workout that will only cement Slippy's growing reputation as an
intelligent, inventive musician whose reach grows daily.
Smoking.
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