Editor’s Note: From Albumism’s inception back in 2016, we’ve remained unabashedly and unequivocally passionate about our mission of celebrating the world's love affairs with albums past, present and future.
But while our devotion to the album as an art form has remained steadfast, as evidenced by our deepening repository of individual album tributes and reviews, we’ve admittedly seldom taken the opportunity to explicitly articulate our reverence for the virtues of artists’ complete album repertoires as a whole.
Hence why we’ve decided to showcase what we believe to be the most dynamic discographies of all time in this recurring series. In doing so, we hope to better understand the broader creative context within which our most beloved individual albums exist, while acknowledging the full breadth of their creators’ artistry, career arcs, and overall contributions to the ever-evolving musical landscape.
We hope you enjoy this series and be sure to check here periodically for the latest installments.
MORCHEEBA
Studio Albums: Who Can You Trust? (1996) | Big Calm (1998) | Fragments of Freedom (2000) | Charango (2002) | The Antidote (2005) | Dive Deep (2008) | Blood Like Lemonade (2010) | Head Up High (2013) | Skye | Ross (2016) | Blaze Away (2018) | Blackest Blue (2021) | Interview
For years I had known of Morcheeba by reputation. The English trio made up of vocalist Skye Edwards and writer-producer brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey came to prominence via the trip-hop movement in the mid-to-late 1990s. It wasn’t until I was exposed to Morcheeba’s fifth studio set The Antidote (2005)—their first sans Edwards where the Godfreys enlisted Noonday Underground frontwoman Daisy Martey temporarily—by a friend in the late summer of 2020 that I got extremely curious. The album—soused in Italo-Western and other 1960s pop textures—was far and away from the trip-hop aestheticism that supposedly defined Morcheeba.
Ready to journey further into their catalog, I gathered every one of their records—and I was not disappointed. While Morcheeba did not abandon their trip-hop roots, it wasn’t a genre that the group limited themselves to. Taken in its entirety, Morcheeba’s discography is rife with sonic surprises: classic soul, hip-hop, disco, folk, alternative rock and more, it’s all there, and then some, for the listening.
Quentin’s 3 Favorite Morcheeba Albums of All Time:
1. Skye | Ross (2016)
2. Blood Like Lemonade (2010)
3. The Antidote (2005)
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