Reviews
Included in Wire Magazine's "50 Records of the Year '99", "...REMEDY shines a thousand points of light down on the dance floor with shimmering jams....This blissful joy ride is hard to resist and easy to love." - Rating: A, "...REMEDY is a potent...slice of high-speed urbanity set to a backbeat of dizzying, rhythmic uncertainty....They only remind you that the optimism is no longer in belief, but in surprise.", Ranked #45 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", "...a roaring success....REMEDY is an insultingly accomplished work....Some tracks will go down a bomb on the dancefloor...", Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1999.", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Basement Jaxx's wackiness is too damn funky....REMEDY radiates a perso-nal vibe that no program could produce....This is house music that works at home.", Ranked #17 in Cmj's "Top 30 Editorial Picks for 1999.", Ranked #29 in Mojo Magazine's "Best of 1999in, 4 1/2 stars (out of 5) - "...repeatedly, and durably, synthesises those notoriously unstable dance music elements; the dizzying dancefloor rush and the complex, long-lasting emotional hit....deft and obvoiously heartfelt....Truly great.", Ranked #1 in Muzik's "Albums of the Year '99", 5 stars (out of 5) - "...REMEDY is like: listening to the best pirate radio station you've ever chanced upon, then spinning the dial and finding something even more exciting...", 5 out of 5 - "...Somehwere on this album, Basement Jaxx have created a song that you're going to love, no matter what sort of music you listen to....the mere existence of REMEDY shows hope for modern music's future.", 9 out of 10 - "...as good a dance album...as anyone from Britain has produced in decades....It's a wonderful new frequency where house, ragga, techno, soul, funk...Jesus, flamenco are all mashed together and it feels like some kind of perfect moment..."
