Reviewed by Dancin' Dave Derbyshire

It's been a long time coming, their last album was in 2005, but the new album from Christendom's leading exponents of world music mashups was well worth the wait. It is a great example of their unique style of music fusing styles of world music - particularly Eastern or more specifically Middle-Eastern styles - with break-beats. However I did find that the tracks on this album jumped around in style a little too widely. Nevertheless the meaningfulness of the two raps stands out as racism is decried as we are reminded that Jesus wasn't white and western involvement in Iraq is criticised. Throughout the hypnotic up-tempo ambience of these tracks is imbued with rich ethnic styles to great effect.

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