hypersongs

New Forms

Reprazent's debut: a two-disc album that won the 1997 Mercury Prize.
Roni Size, 1997

Disc one is "Railing", "Brown Paper Bag", "New Forms" (with Bahamadia), "Let's Get It On", "Digital", "Matter of Fact", "Mad Cat", "Heroes", "Share the Fall (Full Vocal Mix)", "Watching Windows", "Beatbox", "Morse Code" and "Destination" (with Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn); disc two "Intro", "Hi-Potent", "Trust Me", "Change My Life", "Share the Fall", "Down", "Jazz", "Hot Stuff" and "Ballet Dance". The US edition adds "Electricks". Session guitar, bass and sax were added, with Clive Deamer on drums. It spent 46 weeks on the UK chart and reached 36 on the US Heatseekers chart.

mxdwn's Will Burton wrote in 2017 that it was clearly way ahead of its time back in the 90s, and the 2017 deluxe edition adds contemporaneous remixes and a 74-minute mix. Sound On Sound says the New Forms 2 version of "Brown Paper Bag" is the vocal version that never was on the original album, a point the Wikipedia tracklist, which lists the song at 9:03, leaves unresolved.

Track listing

  1. Railing2:05
  2. Brown Paper Bag9:03
  3. New Forms7:45
  4. Let's Get It On6:57
  5. Digital9:05
  6. Matter of Fact4:05
  7. Mad Cat4:56
  8. Heroes6:35
  9. Share the Fall (Full Vocal Mix)6:13
  10. Watching Windows5:33
  11. Beatbox1:09
  12. Morse Code6:58
  13. Destination8:12

Sources

  1. New Forms, Wikipedia
  2. Roni Size: creating New Forms 2, Sound On Sound (2008-05)