Abandoning the format that made you successful is a gamble that rarely works and Kosheen, the dance success story of 2002, are sadly another promising act to have fallen into the trap.
Where debut album Resist was dark, second offering Kokopelli is dreary. Instead of meshing the haunting vocals of folk singer Sian Evans with futuristic drum 'n' bass in the radio-friendly format which won them acclaim, the band have inexplicably replaced the cutting edge beats for bland guitar riffs.
Blue Eyed Boy and Little Boy feel laboured and, like many of the tracks, lack the rawness of breakthrough single Hide U. The band manage to redeem themselves with Crawling and Avalanche while Swamp is a delightful blend of dirty bass lines and Sian sounding ever-so-slightly like Moloko's Roisin Murphy. Infectious single All In My Head is a solitary ray of sunshine in an otherwise colourless world.
Updated: 11:14 Thursday, August 21, 2003
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