Boom boom boom, let’s go back to my room

Junkie XL - Booming Back At You
Posted by Laila Hanson on 03-Jun-08 @ 03:12 PM

[3.5/5]
Where his wan soundtrack to the video game SSX Blur was but a whisper, Junkie XL gets back to full-volume hooks on Booming Back To You, his fifth full-length platter. Booming stacks the deck with a full panoply of pop: Dirty French glitch-house with big-beat breakdowns ("Booming Back At You"), '80s goth-rock lodestones (his cover of the Siouxsie & The Banshees anthem "Cities In Dust," with vocals by L.A. rocker Lauren Rocket), stadium-filling techno (the naughty, Rocket-fueled "More"), Technicolor melodies ("Not Enough") and for a jazzy change of pace, a slow, sexy, smoldering number ("Mad Pursuit," featuring Electrocute's Nicole Morier). It's master-crafted to kill in the clubs or bop in the bedroom, and while it's just shy of sonic overkill in spots, JXL's enthusiastic proficiency is largely consistent throughout. (NETTWERK) Erick Haight


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