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"Toast to our Differences" is the third studio album by English drum and bass band Rudimental, released on 25 January 2019 through Asylum Records.
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Toast To Our Differences’ is a hard album to dislike, but you could probably have a go. The charges against London drum and bass collective Rudimental’s third album: it’s too long (16 tracks), musically all over the place (veering from Littlewoods advert pop-house to Smooth Radio schmaltz) and, above all, wants so hard to be liked that it sounds like an earnest school project. However: for its occasional tedium, it would take a hard heart indeed to reject this record.
Toast To Our Differences’ is bound to bring people together. It probably should have come out in summer, its sunny rhythms ready made to be played in the background at a family barbecue, but the album’s highlights are so brashly optimistic that they inevitably raise a smile. The warped vocal that ushers in the frenetic ‘Dark Clouds’ sounds like a Kidz Bop version of Tupac’s ‘California Love’, while ‘They Don’t About Us’ is a classy slowjam about the power of community.
It’s literally – literally – impossible to dislike. That Stefflon Don and Ray BLK track epitomises the album’s filler (see also: the gaudy fairground sounds of James Arthur’s ‘Sun Comes Up’), but overall this is an effective ode to everyone being a bit nicer to each other. And that’s not a bad idea.
Reviewed by Jordan Bassett for nme.com.
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