Morcheeba

Morcheeba defined the lifestyle and sound of the British chill generation with this intoxicating mix of '50s Lounge, '70s Funk, and modern alternative rock. "The Sea," "Blindfold" and "Fear and Love" are all late night epics.

Like Portishead – with whom they often get tossed into the same barrel of brooding
monkeys – Morcheeba have found the tie that binds Sixties spy music, blues-infused
hip-hop and fragile balladry. Morcheeba are less tortured than their British brethren,
though: On their perversely sunny Big Calm, the London-based trio takes a detour from the
trippier hippie-hop of its 1996 debut, Who Can You Trust?, dragging acoustic guit... More >