- Artist
- Chicane
- Label
- Modena
- Release date
- 23rd July 2007
- Genre
- House
Radio-friendly house music for the returning Ibiza crowd
While pantomime actors must experience a flurry of activity at the end of every year, and then spend the whole summer ironing their tights, it must be similar for artists like Chicane. Best known for Offshore and the Bryan Adams single Don’t Give Up, Nick Bracegirdle must adore summer for the increase in demand for floaty house music and string-washed breakbeats to remind holidaymakers of their recent trips - and to take them out of the winter doldrums.
Somersault – which opens with recent Tom Jones-led single Stoned In Love – is probably best appreciated if you can associate every song on it with a wonderful emotional moment on some terrace or dancefloor in the Balearics. Without it, it strays into overproduced muzak, neatly ignoring everything exciting that’s now happening in dance music. Pilfering beats from UNKLE albums released nearly ten years ago and chopping up guitars and plaintive vocals over the top does not make for innovation.
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