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Despite the same old sound and a busy release schedule leading up to it, The Cosmic Game comes across as fresh as a debut and surprisingly indifferent toward being the in thing. What it is is music for music's sake, all laid out with the utmost care, giving listeners a fully thought-out album that makes the \"forward\" button on your CD player purposeless. Effortlessly flowing from the indie-grooving \"Marching the Hate Machines (Into the Sun)\" with the Flaming Lips to reggae to samba to psychedelia and beyond, the album is trimmed of all fat. Instrumentals with clever grooves sometimes overstayed their welcome on previous Thievery albums, but here they're whittled down to interludes when need be and positioned as chillout segues between the more striking numbers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe druggy, Perry Farrell-inna-reggae-style \"Revolution Solution\" is one of these stunners, but the superstars don't own all the highlights. As dank, Jamaican-flavored horns echo into the distance, siren Sista Pat lures listeners into the deep world of \"Wires and Watchtowers\" while soulful crooner Notch takes things uptown on the cool \"Amerimacka\" before the Corp turn the tune into one of their stickiest dub outings yet. The pleasant \"The Heart's a Lonely Hunter\" deserves mention because David Byrne guests on vocals, and while it's very good, it's the most forgettable number on this outing. The track brings a very slight reminder of when Thievery Corporation have let ambition trump the meaningful and meaty, but the otherwise purposeful and certain Cosmic Game is so darkly delicious you have to admit it's their masterwork.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ESL","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50440460468555,"sku":"1041030","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a196a852-b101-46a7-a994-4d87b9195e85_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726961888"},{"product_id":"radio-retaliation","title":"Radio Retaliation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the title alone, it's clear that Thievery Corporation has more on its mind than just the construction of breezy coffeehouse soundtracks and laid-back global chill. Radio Retaliation is a record of righteous fury (the targets are political, if that even needs to be said) and one that makes their previous efforts sound like Discreet Music in comparison. Thievery amps up their beats, quickens the pace, and unleashes a phalanx of vocal features to attack the D.C.-based Corporation's crosstown rivals on Capitol Hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (Granted, this is still a revolution mostly in the head.) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mélange of worldbeat influences finds all the usual traces (Jamaica, India, Brazil, Nigeria, Arabia), but virtually all of the locales are charted by natives (Sleepy Wonder, Anoushka Shankar, Seu Jorge, Femi Kuti). 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Despite the politics, there are still a few more of the ethereal masterpieces Thievery Corporation have made a hallmark in the past, including the sublime \"Beautiful Drug\" (featuring Slovakian singer Jana Andevska) and \"Mandala,\" a guest feature for Anoushka Shankar that's particularly refreshing as an alternative to the usual Indian atmosphere on downbeat records (sampled, not played). 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