BASEMENT JAXX 'ROOTY' 2LP (Pink & Blue Vinyl) 50OFFSALE

BASEMENT JAXX 'ROOTY' 2LP (Pink & Blue Vinyl) 50OFFSALELABEL: XL Recordings VINYL RELEASE DATE: 3 24 2023 ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 2001 VARIANT: Pink and Blue Vinyl 2LP 2022 reissue Named after their infamous Brixton club night, Basement Jaxxs second album Rooty saw Basement Jaxx continue to push the boundaries of pop and club music. The album mixes classic house with generous lashings of punk, funk, R&B, jazz, hip hop, 2 step and pop songcraft in a mad genre crash that works like a charm. It features the

Produced and engineered by Will Yip

000 copies and becoming one of the most influential indie albums of all-time

and it's there in the music

2017 release from Dave Grohl and his Foos

the album features a blend of dark pop

with songs that sound like singles: "Sunny Feeling" and "You Never Know

and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (1964)

the singer knew that the song was a milestone in his creative evolution

The two albums show very different faces of the Virgin Prunes – one that explored mythical worlds and another that showed their surrealistic interest in the creative power of insanity

seems like a nod towards Dazed and Confused type Zeppelin song writing for example

and the mix is loaded with sweetening from acoustic guitars

reflecting the contradiction of the band's environment buried in urban sprawl framed by prairie landscape