This club-tronic outfit doesn't so much cross house rhythms with world-beat stylings as make the latter the building blocks of the former, a far more ambitious project. That means turning African percussion and haunting Middle Eastern strains into polyrhythmic dance tracks fit for a Clerkenwell club.
With Sound Mirrors Coldcut have made the best album of their long and illustrious career. It's not something you can state lightly, but there you are. Their production ahs never sounded better, their ideas have never been more varied or interesting, they've never had such a great cast of guests and then integrated them into their sound so well. Yes, it's a record that is deeper, funkier, more clever, more engaged and more engaging than anything they've done before. And, it follows from that, it's deeper funkier and more clever than just about anything else around right now.