Questo è il terzo lavoro dei Faithless, il duo composto dal rapper Maxi Jazz (voce) e Sister Bliss (tastiere), ai quali si aggiunge ai cori Zoe Johnston (che sostituisce Dido sia nella realizzazione dell'opera che in tournee in quanto impegnata con il suo primo album "Here With Me", che si rivelò un grande successo e che non le permise di collaborare attivamente con il gruppo come in precedenza).

Uscito nel 2001, è il seguito di Reverence (1996) e Sunday 8 p.m. (1998), i due album che li hanno resi noti in particolar modo per le hit dance di successo "Insomnia" e "God Is A DJ".

"Outrospective" è la loro definitiva consacrazione, dalla prima alla dodicesima traccia è una cascata di emozioni.
Si inizia con "Donny X", un intro che riprende il testo di "Reverence" e che porta a brani molto vari ma comunque bellissimi.

Alcuni sono dei gran pezzi dance molto ballabili quali "We Come One" (autentico inno da discoteca, primo singolo estratto e la canzone più famosa della tracklist) e "Tarantula", altri rap quali "Not Ennuf Love", "Muhammad Alì" (secondo singolo estratto, si tratta di un brano rap dal ritmo molto sostenuto chiaramente dedicato al noto pugile, l'idolo d'infanzia di Maxi), "Giving Myself Away" (una canzone riflessiva su una relazione sentimentale del rapper) ed altri ancora più lenti e malinconici come "Crazy English Summer", "Evergreen" e la conclusiva "Liontamer", tutti e tre molto ben interpretati dalla corista Zoe Johnston.

Sono presenti inoltre due brani strumentali, ovvero "Machines R Us" (dal ritmo molto sostenuto che viene spesso spezzato e che si chiude con un tappeto di tastiere che creano un'atmosfera distesa molto suggestiva) e la breve ma toccante "Code" (una traccia di un minuto e mezzo molto semplice suonata con il piano ma nello stesso momento molto toccante, ascoltare per credere!).

Nel mezzo del disco è collocata "One Step Too Far", l'unica canzone che vede la collaborazione con Dido (tra l'altro sorella del produttore dei Faithless, Rollo Armstrong), ed uno dei maggiori singoli di successo dei Faithless.

In queste dodici tracce prevale un senso di malinconia che è probabilmente la fonte del fascino della loro terza fatica.

Un disco unico che consiglio veramente di ascoltare.

P.S.: è la mia prima recensione, spero di aver fatto un discreto lavoro

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01   Donny X (04:07)

Quiet
Still
You feel there's nothing going on
until you realize
the space behind your eyes is filling up
with something like peace.

Your thoughts cease
Pleasure grows in your soul

The space behind your eyes is filling up
with something like peace
Your thoughts cease
Pleasure grows in your soul

02   Not Enuff Love (05:53)

[Chorus]
Now when you climb
Into your bed tonight
And when you lock
And bolt the door
Just think of those
Out in the cold and dark
'Cause there's not enough love to go round

Now when you climb [fade]
And when you lock [fade]
Just think of those
out in the cold and dark
'Cause there is not enough love to go round.

[Maxi Jazz]
I tell you, wake up
You people need a shake up
You take up so much time
Worrying, scurrying,
Here, there,
Losing your hair
No money to spare
No love to share
No wonder you appear under pressure from here
You look fresher
But all I got is dirt in my hair
My nightmares manifest,
But I can escape
Yours is in your chest
With no form or shape
The tape is running
I push the button to send
Upon each other we all depend
Message end

Whoever asks my name
Or where I came from
People fear contamination
If they chary too long
I carry a strong
Scent of despair
It's in the air
I'm broken and hard to repair
I may mistaken be
But I patiently wait
On the path to humanity
I sit at the gates

[Chorus]
Now when you climb
Into your bed tonight
And when you lock
And bolt the door
Just think of those
Out in the cold and dark
'Cause there's not enough love to go round

Now when you climb
Into your bed tonight
And when you lock
And bolt the door
Just think of those
Out in the cold and dark
'Cause there's not enough love to go round

[Maxi Jazz]
Dirty, Cold, Hurting, Sold,
Down the river
My liver in bad condition
Like my skin
Rain falling, once again
I'm in my bed
Hurt the time in
I'm gonna struggle for air
There's hair in my food
When I get it usually someone already half ate it
I try not to let it
Get me down
But my head's starting to pound
People go round, and round and round

From one I get a cigarette
A little more love found
But the ground is still wet
My teeth are chattering
And there's a spattering of seeds
Sometimes I lose all feeling in my feet
When I sleep I'll do my deep in the mainstream
But unaccountably my heart has grown
Small and mean
I hurry past
Retched people I pretend I haven't seen
But there's money in my pocket
And my clothes are clean

[Maxi Jazz 4x]
I said money in my pocket
But I just can't give no love
Money in my pocket
But I just can't give no love

[Chorus]
Now when you climb
Into your bed tonight
And when you lock
And bolt the door
Just think of those
Out in the cold and dark
'Cause there's not enough love to go round
'Cause there's not enough love to go round

03   We Come 1 (08:18)

04   Crazy English Summer (02:41)

Fields of fire that passed the train
The sky is victorious but here comes the rain
Friday is taking me home again,
And I've nothing but you on my mind.

Grass is greener without the pain,
I think that I'm changing but I'm just the same
My sun is a ascending again
And I've nothing but you on my mind

Sometimes I feel like I'm glad to be free,
Sometimes I still want your arms around me
Sometimes I'm glad to have left you behind,
The Crazy English Summer has put you back on my mind.
Life's a riot a lover a friend,
Pity the day that it has to end
Friday come speed me home again,
I've nothing but you on my Mind.

Sometimes I feel like i'm fine on my own,
Fifty Thousand miles from home.
Sometimes I'm weak and the past is my guide,
Summer returns and puts you back on my mind

05   Muhammad Ali (04:18)

If all you keep hearing it so long you will see me as a super
star and you'll have time to waste with your minions and tink
I see your face in front of me,
Still grainy from that old black and white TV
My whole family silenced,
Watching you shape destiny with your 2 hands,
Faster than the eye can see...

Mesmerizing

You know what skinny lickle me started to struggle,
10 years old suddenly bold
Cause I resolved to live like my hero in the ring...
Be smart never give an inch, No retreating
an I racked up respect from teachers, Red Necks
And creatures who attack in a pack like insects.
Never seen the like not before or
Since, a young prince
An I remain convinced of his invincibility
Athletic agility, virility,
Still a free spirit, forever through eternity
stingin' like a bee...
Mr Muhammed Ali.

I want to know who you are!
I want to know who you are!
I want to know who you are!

Your achievements defy belief from the belly of the beast Rising like yeast,
yo, My release from low self esteem
Came when I saw you rapping on my TV screen.
Float like a butterfly,
That describes my walk to school after fight night
I felt so cool cause I was the greatest too,
Love of self born simply out of love for you,
And I knew that someday people would love me too.
None of that hecklin' about my black skin got through,
I would walk barefoot through hell for you,
It's how I felt back then an still do, so will you
accept these humble words of praise,
And my gratitude for those glorious days
And meritorious ways instilled in the a young mind.
Skill sublime,
yours to mine!

I want to know who you are!
I want to know who you are!
I want to know who you are!

06   Machines R Us (03:45)

Instrumental

07   One Step Too Far (05:19)

[Dido]
You can sleep forever, but still you will be tired
You can stay as cold as stone, but still you won't find peace
With you I feel I'm the meek leading the blind
With you I feel I'm just spending wasted time

I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
But with you (with you)
It's always one step too far

One step too far

You can whine to the bone but still you won't be full
You can look down on the world but still you won't find love
You won't find love

[Maxi Jazz]
Only with mellow
Are you thin enough to slide through.
If the sun or the moon should give way to doubt,
They would immediately go out.
One swallow don't make a summer,
But tomorrow has to start somewhere.
Only with mellow
Are you thin enough to slide through.
Only with mellow
Are you thin enough to slide through.
Don't Let nothing ride you
Only with mellow
Are you thin enough to slide through.
Don't Let nothing ride you
One swallow don't make a summer.

[Dido]
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
But with you
It's always one step too far
One step too far

I've been waiting

I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I've been waiting
I'm still waiting
But with you
It's always one step too far
One step too far

08   Tarantula (06:40)

These arms
That hold you
That hold you
That hold you...

Down in the shadows of your deepest secrets
I sleep next to the precepts you hold most dear
Your heart is in my province hour upon hour
I shiver when you feel the cold,
Everything you say I hear
Like a bomb and its fuse,
We bring bright light
But I could be a devil to you
I could bite like a tarantula
Right through the skin
And leave my poison In

Deliciously Unsuspecting
Protecting you from all harm
Except perhaps from these arms
That hold you
That hold you
That hold you
That hold you
That hold you....

09   Giving Myself Away (04:41)

10   Code (01:36)

No Lyrics (Instrumental)

11   Evergreen (04:31)

Running with my rain face on
Today I woke up feeling sad
I know that you said,
That one day I would be glad
Hold the Choirs of Winter,

The Birds are calling to me and
All the leaves I came to love are falling
Ribbons on evergreen, owls that pull them apart
I can hear you singing my funny valentine
Oh you know that breaks my heart
Hold the choirs of winter,
The Birds are calling to me and
All the leaves I came to love

Oh you know that breaks my heart
Oh you know that breaks my heart

Running with my rain face on
No Idea of what to say
No idea of who to do
In this fear that never goes
Waiting for all my dreams
Oh you know it breaks my heart
Hold the Choirs of Winter,
The Birds are calling to me and
All the leaves I came to love

Oh you know it breaks my heart
Oh you know it breaks my heart
Oh you know That breaks my heart

12   Liontamer (05:49)

[Maxi Jazz]
If you place a thing into the center of your life
That lacks the power to nourish
It will eventually poison everything that you are
And destroy you

A simple a thing as an idea
Or your perspective on yourself of the world
No one can be the source of your contempt,
It lies within, in the center.
Only with mellow while your thin enough to slide through
Only with mellow while your thin enough to slide through

Don't let nothing ride you.

If the sun or the moon should keel away to die,
They would immediately go out .

One.

Swallow don't make a sound,
But tomorrow has to start somewhere.

Newspapers entertain,
Lion Tamers die in pain
This Child wise beyond words
Whose tears flow without seize

Newspapers entertain,
Lion Tamers die in pain
This child wise beyond words
Whose tears flow without seize

[Zo']
When there's no where, left to run to
Let me come to you, let me help you down
For when the world, gives you tomorrow
Your gonna learn to live again

we can learn to go,
oh learn as we go

Just to live, for the day
I know it's hard, to live for the moment
Just try, anyway

[Maxi Jazz]
Newspapers, Lion Tamers, This Child,
Lion Tamers, Lion Tamers

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