I refer to things as "good work music" a fair amount on this blog.
On one hand, that's backhanded, implying that something is inoffensive and undemanding; that it isn't worth really listening to.
On the other hand, there's something to be said about music that operates subconsciously, that provides mood without demanding your focus: architecture can be great art, even if it operates subconsciously. Some of the best rhetoric operates best when the listener doesn't understand what its trying to achieve.
Also, I work a lot. Music that I can listen to while I do that it pretty good to have around.
This album is about perfect as work music, packed with slowly evolving acid house that shifts from tone to tone and style to style seamlessly, alternating driving beats and ambient segments, but never veering too far in either direction. It is simply expertly produced music, silky smooth, but with a pulse. The closest comparison I can make (as someone who's not a real genre aficionado) is The Chemical Brothers' Surrender, a similarly housey turn from a band that didn't previously specialize in the style.
It seems strange to rate an album that is actually kind of unadventurous so highly, but it does what it does well, fitting the niche to a T, earning the low end of 4.5/5
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