Outrospective by Faithless

Outrospective, the third Faithless album, landed on Cheeky on 18 June 2001 as the follow-up to Sunday 8PM, and the core trio sound in full command: Rollo Armstrong producing from the studio shadows, Sister Bliss alongside, and Maxi Jazz up front with that calm, deep, preacherly delivery, murmuring sociopolitical sermons over beats built for enormous rooms. House, trance and trip-hop all get folded into the mix, and the cover photo, taken during the student uprisings in Paris in May 1968, tells you the band had more than dancing on its mind.

"We Come 1" is the monster, a pounding, euphoric rush that went top three in Britain, and "One Step Too Far", sung with Dido, made the top 10 too, with "Muhammad Ali" and "Tarantula" further down. It turned out to be their biggest-selling album at home, though Rollo has since said it's his least favourite. No Roots came next.

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