Opening track 'Keeping Pigs Together' is a good indication where the latterly feel-good Red Snapper have decided to go with this album. There are dominant, dark-as-hell beats and a rich collection of cyber soundscapes - on first listen this could be the soundtrack of a 'Bladerunner' remake.
Although a lot of the songs waste no time in slipping into your sub-conscious, 'Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper' might not necessarily be described as easy. There is less of the kind of double-bass that sends tingles down your spine or upbeat, dance-until-you-drop energy that exudes boundlessly from their 1998 long-player 'Making Bones'.
'Some Kind Of Kink', with an incessant breakbeat, feels murky and slippery like a lot of early trip hop. It's gooey, squelching and dripping vocals (by MC Det) pay a vague homage to The The's Matt Johnson but don't have quite the same gripping, gravelly power to break every window in the house.
It would be easy to think that Red Snapper may have misplaced their sense of a humour while they were writing this album, and to be fair it has been a pretty tough couple of years for them, until about half way through. There lies the sleaziest song they've ever written, 'The Rough And The Quick', which is a seedy, up-tempo slumber with ultra-sexy grooves.
The repetitive chorus "I want the kind of night that I read about /You know the one you find on the top shelf" is as infectious as they come. The erotic immediacy, the panting and Karime Kendra's no-holds barred requests for sexual fulfilment is a reminder that this band are still capable of making every inch of skin ripple, every hair stand on end and, as the title suggests, are aiming to satisfy.
Less automatic than the last it may be, but this is a record overflowing with a glorious mixture of styles. There are the jazz moments longed for, soaring strings, breakbeat fused delights and skanking along to the dubby, pelvic-pounding 'I Stole Your Car' is bloody compulsory. There are no half measures here. The sound is more mature, more knowing and between them Red Snapper have no intention of letting anyone down.
