Precisely when they needed to reach down their own throats and pull out some high-energy guts and glory,
Faithless returned to offer one more sham: trance comedown into meaningless muttering and patented plasticine R&B. Thing is, while there's something to be said about understatement,
Rollo and
Sister Bliss -- being
Rollo and
Sister Bliss -- seem perennially preoccupied with chasing the tail of clubland zeitgeist, lacking ingenuity to recapture either their "Insomnia" or "God Is a DJ" ethereal highs, to ever get their heads around such a concept.
Outrospective is a veritable cesspit of introspection, happy to dish out varying MOR versions of
Angelo Badalamenti's oeuvre, and gawk at the way sagging comeback singles like "We Come 1" flatline the whimsy of
Underworld's "Oich Oich" with an utter lack of abandon. ~ Dean Carlson