("You and me were meant to be"), but the musical touches that surround "Love Is Rare" (particularly Ross Godfrey's arching slide-guitar leads) and the dream-cloud vocals of "World Looking In" are strong enough to carry even the tired clichTs - rarely has the shallow end sounded so richly appointed. With
Fragments of Freedom, Morcheeba have stopped emulating the trippy underworld of Stevie Wonder's
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants and stepped into the blazing daylight of
Hotter Than July.(RS 846)
TOM MOON