Basement Jaxx – The Singles album review

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What a rush! Just under an hour of unabashed party music sticks a timely full-stop (or perhaps just a semi-colon – I don’t think they’re going anywhere) after six years of genre-bashing bassquake beats for Basement Jaxx. The two South Londoners have blossomed from house-oriented underground party-throwers into an impressively eclectic monster, unafraid of using pop immediacy to sneak excitable, fresh noises into the mainstream. This party set kicks off with the storming ‘Red Alert’ and takes in everything from splendid discoid new single ‘Oh My Gosh’ to ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ and the raucous ‘Plug It In’ along the way. And let’s not forget that ‘Lucky Star’ (the Dizzee Rascal one) is more punk-rock than anything else on this page. Ubiquity has done Basement Jaxx no harm at all.

Charlie Ivens