2014 reissue - Herbaliser is the most hip-hop of the Ninja Tune lot, and previous releases (such as Remedies and the New and Improved EP) have illustrated a knack for filling out the jazz and funk roots of hip-hop while remaining both deep and kicking. Blow Your Headphones ups the ante considerably, with a nonstop soul-drop that pushes the beats even further forward and thins the extraneous samples and genre-references. The result is less differentiable from straight-ahead hip-hop (save for the fact the album's mostly instrumental), but is also less derivative of acid and soul jazz, a connection that tended to mar their previous work. A1 Opening Credits A2 Bring It A3 Another Mother A4 More Styles B1 Ginger Jumps The Fence B2 Put It On Tape B3 Saturday Night B4 Intermission C1 Shocker Zulu C2 The Blend C3 Shorty´s Judgement D1 Theme From Control Centre (Reprise) D2 Hardcore D3 Mr. Chombee Has The Flaw D4 End Credits
