Thievery Corporation

Thievery's second album is akin to reuniting with a jet-setting best friend over a bottle of wine. The music immediately pulls you into a warm embrace, and then gently weaves in accents from faraway places like Brazil, India, Jamaica, and France. Somewhere in there, you start to feel tipsy ("Focus on Sight"). Just go with the glow.

Thievery Corporation's 1996 debut, Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi, was a must-have for
martini-drinking lounge lizards everywhere. Plundering a bazaar of cosmopolitan sounds, it
established this swank, mod-suit-wearing D.C.-based duo as the Thomas Crowns of
sampling. Four years on, DJs Rob Garza and Eric Hilton continue their global pillaging with
the hypnotic Mirror Conspiracy -- think James Bond chilling with Lee Perry and... More >

Processed chèvre avec nutmeg and a soupçon of Scotch bonnet ("Indra," "Treasures"). (Grade - **)