Reviews
2003-07-21
Chill-Out and Trip-Hop are typically considered as background music.
Something meant to create a certain vibe, atmosphere. Usually words has no grave meaning in such projects but when you stop and listen to the words of “sleeping dogs” you find out a paranoid delusional mind playing games with itself over the complex matter of music.
Mark Atherton and Tracy Elizabeth bring the even darker side of trip hop with drops of dub, jazz and even blues-rock.
Tracy has utter control of her voice and Atherton masters to highlight each and every single nuance and basically amplify the emotion in Tracy’s voice.
Tracy got several voices as a matter of fact (kind of a darker Tori Amos) almost every one with a dark sexy feel to it. Atherton likes to use a telephone voice effect with sleazy atmosphere to it or he lets Tracy use her clean voice and uses both as lead or backing vocals according to necessity.
A few years ago “sleeping dogs” would have been considered “Experimental”
Now days it’s part of growing genre with a lot of exposure via soundtracks, radio and chill-out rooms.
My Mate Mark are an excellent example for the new age trip-hop ambient revolution….
Tal Galfsky
