16/03/1998 | Happy Release Day 1998 | Morcheeba - Big Calm Indochina #morcheeba #indochinarecords @morcheebaband Allmusic: „Trip-hop and dance rhythms remain, but the trio has spent more time writing songs, crafting an album where pop, lounge, film soundtracks, reggae, jazz, and electronica all peacefully coexist. „ Entertainment Weekly: „The gauzy production and langorous, soft-focus funk is once again in evidence on Big Calm, but this time the band mixes it up with deep-dish dub grooves, snatches of rap, sumptuous string arrangements, and the kind of canny songcraft that’s frequently absent from other trip-hop-pop collectives.“ NME: „Before you've heard a solitary note of their bewildering scratch-hop-country-reggae-trance-pop, you know Morcheeba are a proper group with interesting people in and everything.“ Pitchfork: „It doesn't hurry, just winds slow tapestries of vaguely interesting trip-hop loops, sighingly slow vocals and obscure samples.“ „Big Calm is competent, above-the-pack-but-just-barely trip-hop with all the right elements in the chamber but no spark of intuition or risk.“ Rolling Stone: „On their perversely sunny Big Calm, the London-based trio takes a detour from the trippier hippie-hop of its 1996 debut, Who Can You Trust?, dragging acoustic guitars to the forefront.“ https://www.instagram.com/p/CbLDXkVMp9g/?utm_medium=tumblr
