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| | System 7 - The Fire Album: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | To begin with, Hillage frankly deserves at least some credit just for his ability to openly embrace newer music without ever sounding like a dilettante, while most of his progressive peers from the '70s acted as if neither disco nor punk had ever happened, much less everything after that. |
 | | That said, the promising title Fire rarely gets you up and moving on your feet; for all the solid beats throughout, it's a politer dance album, more meditative than punchy -- one reason why history hasn't remembered it so well. |
 | | At its best, though, it's still good stuff: The collaborations with May, "Mysterious Traveller," and "Overview," are unsurprisingly the best on the album; while neither May's nor Hillage's stated mutual worship of George Clinton [+] is apparent, the beats and grooves are among the best here. |
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