Customer Reviews

Something Wicked This Way Comes

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Herbaliser is possibly the best group in the incredibly deep talent reservoir of the Ninja Tune label and this CD proves it. So far it is their best one, with great raps and jazzy, spy soundtrack-like music. Probably a best way to get to know this band. Get it. Anything from Ninja Tune is worth buying.

An entertaining eclectic mix of jazzy hip hop in the Ninja Tunes style. If you like other stablemates on the ninja label you'll be right at home with this little pearl.

I really liked "Very Mercenary", so I was disappointed when I put this disc in, only to find that the technical wizardry so prevalent on VM is lacking here. In fact, it's non-existant. Every single song ends with you suddenly remembering that you're listening to music. It just falls into the background, where I guess it belongs. Don't get me wrong. It isn't bad music. It's just nothing special. Rip it from a friend, but don't waste your hard earned money on it like I did. I miss my money.

Can't recommend this album enough. The beats are organic with a tasteful use of well placed samples. Breakbeat-esque.

There is also a lot of horns on this album, which just kill it. They add so much IMO.

I am not sure if this is a concept album, though I think of it as such since hearing the title track on WFMU-my freeform darling oasis-on Holloween

The vocals here are hip hop, but are laced over a chunky, old school funk which is always meaty, always varried, and always delicous. I am not the biggest rap fan, but here, the grooves are thick enough to support the mammouth rhymes. Flutes, heavy bass, and all kinds of terrific 70s blackplotation soundtrack moves--which sound like the real thing-make this work.

Hightly endorsed.

Herbaliser is to music, like a package of wipes for my new-born baby's butt! it's refreshing, renewing, invigorating, necessary. A bunch of artists with a keen ear for melody, arrangement and production! wow, what a brilliant sense of stereophonic harmonies. Really a complete package for those among us who like Hip Hop, Jazz, Funk that involves good musicianship and inspired sensitivity. Highly recommended band whose music is a mixed bag of old-skool rhythms and new school rhymes. Now, if you'll excuse me i have to change yet another diaper. Meanwhile, i'll have another listen to any of their albums, expectantly i can always hear something new!

Herbaliser's fourth album, is a tremendous effort that blends the "Stoned" grooves of early Kruder & Dorfmeister, with his own Ninja-tune styled underground Trip-hop.....Phi Life Cypher on "Distinguished Jamaican English, and MF Doom on "It Ain't Nuttin"...as good as any of his Ninja-tune stablemates, yet star of the show is "Wildflower" on the exceptional "Good Girl Gone Bad".....Who explodes on the mic instantly, and Rap's & freestyles with such a unrelenting "Ragga / Hip-hop" sonic assault that (given on this evidence) it's arguably superior to the already tremendous "Ms Dynamite"......"Wildflower's" drops lyrical lines like "There are so many different sides to a person's Com-plex!!.....When you try & Box me in, I get Vexx!!!.....Don't bother put me in no, "Pigeon Hole".....Especially when It seems like I'm on such a Roll", in a confident yet unabashed style of many a pirate radio M.C., but to not give at least a mention of the Trip-Hop/Jazz Vocalist fusion of the title track "Something Wicked This Way Comes" would be foolish, and it opens the album beautifully and illustrates `The Herabliser's' ear for a incredibly catchy hook, that simply cannot be ignored. The Herbaliser through his excellent Trip-hop psychedelia, and forsight into experimentation continues "Ninja-tune's" unblemished record of astonishing output.

The album toggles between rap and instrumental music. I'm pretty picky when it comes to rap. I've always liked the rappers under the Ninja tunes label more so than others out there. The rap songs on this album are mediocre, but I'm probably not the best person to judge.

The instrumentals are fun "Shaft" 70'sish style of funk, with # 5 being the hit that everyone will like. The instrumentals all have the NIce scratchin that you have come to enjoy from the Herbaliser. Over all I think its well worth the buy, however I'm going to have to say that "Blow your Headphones" is still the masterpiece.

this is the best herbaliser album i think...