New Forms

Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.82) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Rolling Stone (11/27/97, p.107) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...drum-and-bass that employs live instruments and shoots straight down the middle....Size and Reprazent make the best case yet for drum-and-bass as the ultimate end-of-the-century urban-soul music." Spin (9/99, p.138) - Ranked #38 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Spin (1/98, p.87) - Ranked #13 on Spin's list of the "Top 20 Albums Of The Year." Spin (12/97, p.153) - 8 (out of 10) - "...It's this year's consensus electronica album....Reprazent understand that the real `jazz thing' going on in drum'n'bass....resides in the rhythm section--the relationship between hyper-syncopated breakbeats and the roaming, ruminative, but always visceral bass..." Entertainment Weekly (10/31/97, p.109) - "Like Soul II Soul, Bristol, England-bred Size and his group, Reprazent, create a funked-up soundscape of jazzy riffs, horns, wistful vocals, spacey bursts and pops, and MC toasting..." - Rating: A Q (1/98, p.114) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997." Alternative Press (5/02, p.104) - Included in AP's '10 Essential Pioneering Electronic Albums'. Vibe (12/97-1/98, p.180) - "...The Bristol-based Roni Size and the Reprazent posse...audibly smash all preconceptions of drum'n'bass's being inaccessible....Roni Size and Reprazent have created new forms to love, cherish, and behold." Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) - Ranked #7 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year." Melody Maker (6/14/97, p.50) - "...contains more vision...imagination in the first few minutes of it's opening track than 99 percent of any album, from any genre so far this year...the finest drum n'bass album of all time....it is to the Nineties what "Sgt. Pepper" was to the Sixties; a record of unbridaled passion." Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #15 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. NME (Magazine) (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #28 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll. Paste (magazine) - "[T]he album remains a tonic and astonishing listen....NEW FORMS still gives off a lot of heat."