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Title: Music Like Dirt
Release date: 21 May, 2002
Record label: Warner Brothers
Single: Algebra
Official website: N/A
Wikipedia: Soul Hooligan
Tracklisting
1. Algebra
2. Addicted
3. Turn You Head Around
4. Soul Searching
5. Numb In Both Lips
6. Psychedelic Soul
7. Night Owl
8. Start The Day
9. Stoop Kid
10. Who's To Say
11. Time Goes By
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Soul Hooligan's Music Like Dirt is a lo-fi, red-eyed rumble of sweet beats, fractured urban blues and off-kilter, no-filter hip-hop. It's a wildly varied record given cohesion by neat lines, short tunes, heart-tugging hooks, and the kindly spectre of Stax. The band--Austin, Jim and Dave Jay--met many years in Brentwood, Essex, a trio of musical obsessives working in the half-light of London's breakbeat scene. Each brings very different talents to the table.
There's a rough and ready, palpable soul to this idiosyncratic mix of Badly Drawn Boy, Fatboy Slim, Portishead, Jimmy Radcliffe and Buffalo Springfield. "The first thing we did was all soul music chopped up--being as abusive as possible to things that shouldn't have been abused," smiles Austin.
Basically, Music Like Dirt exists in its own world. The fact that it's emotional and musically complex, not to mention ambiguous, makes it impossible to categorize. "'Soul Searching,'" says Dave, "is probably the only totally bleak one on the album." But even Jim, whose sandpaper vocals guide us through that dark night, disagrees. "The track," he says, "has a
redemptive edge. Sometimes you sit there and think you've nothing inside, nothing to give, and then you come out with what I'd call a classic. I love that tune."
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