Krom - This (2000)

artist: Krom
album: This
release date: 2000
label: primal
tags: trip-hop
don't let it fade away

1. Connection / 2. 5th Princess / 3. Watching Over You / 4. PMS / 5. Water Ego / 6. Nine / 7. Sugarfree / 8. Outside / 9. Scorpio / 10. Stay / 11. Beauty

Another ephemera of the trip-hop sphere, Krom managed to pull off an intense and more than interesting album while retaining a rather conventional trip-hop approach (with the exception of the intriguing upbeat sleeper hit Water Ego). Ever since Dummy and Mezzanine, trip-hop has often been linked with the pleasure of sex and this is one of the firmest evidence to come in the underground. It's like the vocalist really wants to get inside your skin. A spectacular, eargasmic debut that unfortunately proved to be a one-off.