RSSLike Bis, the more mature pop combo Tiger extend the guitar-saturatedgarage-band attitude to various keyboards (including Moogbass) without sounding at all techie, much less techno. But ingeneral, this pushing-30 quintet from the outback of southwesternEngland takes a broader approach than the upbeat Glaswegians. Onthe EPShining in the Wood (Bar/None),they're just as unvirtuosic but with tastes that run every whichway, constructing chameleonic songs that remind sympatheticlisteners of whatever they most want to be reminded of. OnlyTiger's delight itself is unmistakable. And in pop, delight is theultimate prize.
Anyone who's concluded that DJ Shadow's master class in sampling,Endtroducing . . . DJ Shadow, is what the hip hop aesthetic is forshould check outLaytrx--The Album (Solesides),on which his buddies Lateef and Lyrics Born rap to thesame purpose--and sometimes to Shadow's own funk tracks.
Playboy, May 1997
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