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Breaks Co-OpThe Sound Inside Virgin/EMI Seven years after their last release, Breaks Co-op return with a new album and a new sound. Their 1997 release 'Roofers' was well acclaimed in New Zealand's electronic world and expectations were high for them to replicate the innovative down-beat, hip-hop-influenced electronica of their previous offering. However, the time off has seen Zane Lowe and Hamish Clark venture independently (both musically and personally) and it seems that both have concluded that replicating the sounds of 'Roofers' was not only unrealistic but also not indicative of their musical maturity and development. Shifting their focus from the sampled early nineties hip-hop beats, they have made the leap towards live instrumentation and produced a vastly different album in 'The Sound Inside.' Those familiar with the Breaks Co-op sound will find that this album a much more introspective and personal musical production. There's folk (The Other Side, A Place For You, Lay Me Down), electronica (Question Of Freedom, Twilight, Ima), hip-hop (Settle Down, Last Night) and acoustic music (The Sound Inside, Lay Me Down), and everything in between. Lowe and Clark have cited influences from Marvin Gaye to Crosby, Stills and Nash, and this is evident in the overall feel of the album. The addition of the raw talents of soul vocalist Andy Lovegrove has given Lowe and Clark much greater scope for their new musical journey, and provided the album with another dimension. Breaks Co-op have definitely traveled an interesting musical path. Their growth as musicians and songwriters is clear and where 'Roofers' was a genre classic, 'The Sound Inside' has the potential to give Breaks Co-op universal appeal.  |
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