Slacker - Start a New Life


01 Start A New Life 5:51
02 I Have No Memory 1:33
03 When I Was A Child 5:50
04 Come Back Home 4:01
05 Just As I Am 4:58
06 Come With Me 6:52
07 Hymn To Her 4:47
08 See The World 7:05
09 A Million Dreams 1:12
10 Help Me Here 4:01
11 What A Dream I Had 5:47


This certainly is not a house album, and you will not hear the regular Slacker sound. But I must say, the album is fantastic. The RA blurb sums it up quite nicely:

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Instead of concentrating on the progressive house of his past, McCauley has instead decided to concentrate on crafting a full album in the vein of classic '90s works like The KLF's Chill Out and Future Sound Of London's Tales Of Ephidrina. "Stylistically, it might sound like a big change," explains McCauley, "but for me, it’s like expressing the stuff I was never previously able to." The resulting work is entitled Start w New Life, and is quite a diverse effort, encompassing beatless piano tracks ("I Have No Memory"), slo-mo funk ("Just As I Am"), skittering Arthur Russell-sampling breakbeat ("Come With Me") and lush choral electronica ("Help Me Here").

It's a darker, a more subtle sound, almost like something has gone wrong, and he is trying to find his way out, and start a new. It is very relaxing, with some great background atmospheric sound scapes. You have some chanting, kids voices, bells...etc

I've always wondered about 'house artist albums' as we don't normally see them from house artists. I guess there is a reason why they only usually put out singles, maybe they cannot tell a cohesive story over a full LP. Slacker couldn't, and didn't want to, and so he went and make a different kind of album than we would have expected.