This Dog Gets Unleashed, Unchained, and On The Prowl...
yygsgsdrassil | Crossroads America | 03/29/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"...Which might prove to be hazardous to all concerned. This is the original version of the soundtrack to the Jet Li vehicle entitled Unleashed. The Massive is my group of choice when I get into electonica, with an ambient and/or trip hop thing spiced thru it. For listeners who want to listen to something different, this is it. Played in its entirety, in the same track sequence, it amounts to another Massive masterpiece (100th Windows I think wasn't well received in my opinion because it risked it's audience with the addition of Sinead O'connor on vocals. Even so, it is still a masterwork better than most of the sludge being presented as pop music nowadays, but I digress.) What you need to 'really capture' this is either 1) a relaxed, kicked back evening with a bottle of scotch in tow or 2) an aimless post-midnight drive through city streets-preferably from the downtown to the more sordid parts of the city-with this in your CD/Mp3. If you don't get it by the time Polaroid Girl or Sam appears, then you won't get it. As always these workings of buzzes and blips, razoring guitar work and redemption searching have a sense of menace and fear in the under-current. This soundtrack makes you want to see what's in the movie that's for sure, but, for me, for now--I can do with the imagery already placed in my head."