Zero 7 has a beautiful, sleepy, luscious album in Simple Things. My favorite tracks are Give It Away and Destiny. Amazon is giving away Destiny actually as yet another great free MP3 download. Here's their review:
....their debut is a truly gorgeous album. It has all the tried and tested atmospheric tricks--bleeps and whooshes layered over plodding Fender Rhodes chords, swathes of strings and tender trumpet parps--but it's Binns and Hardaker's languid grooves and the soft melancholy of their melodies that make dream-state instrumentals "Give It Away" and "Polaris" utterly enchanting. The real power of Simple Things, however, is in its songs. As beautiful as the ambient strains are, when laid beneath the seductive vocals of Australian diva Sia on the ethereal "Destiny" or the heart-breaking "Distractions," their potency becomes apparent.Posted by elise at September 11, 2003 11:34 PM