Ministry of Sound - The 2005 Annual - album review
Summer under the darkness of strobe lighting, reaching for a child-proof bottle while sopping in sweat and listening to an endless stream of dance. Played straight from start to end the tracks bleed into each other, an orgy of fluids that seamlessly sound the same, and at a glance, without an identity of their own.
If the goal is to forget time and hold the nose up stemming the flow while the rest of the body wants to keep on the charade of knowing how to coordinate, it scores a hearty celebration. Stitched end over end and sharing the same breath as those adjacent, Sunday morning listening comes at hitting shuffle.
Each track at least then ribs a little and fights off the neighbouring tracks to show a version of their own that, for the most part, can stand on its own. Mixed by Mark Dynamix and John Course, this double album has a stainless feel to it, a sensation similar to licking metal.
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Published February 2005 at unistudent.com.au (National Union of Students)
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