Another soundtrack of mid nineties culture. A time where less seemingly mattered and the optimism of a new millennium was peeping over the horizon.
Leftism was never one of those albums that I went and bought but it seemed to be in most people’s music libraries or displayed proudly on their coffee tables having been cited as one of the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die in either the 2005 book by Robert Dimery or the 2007 article in the trendy British Berliner-sheet, The Guardian.
To be fair I had completely forgotten about it and, had it’s familiar album art not popped up on a list on a long forgotten laptop hard drive some years ago, I might have never even included it in the music project and I guess now, with slightly more mature ears, it tickles some nostalgic gland and has some memorable melodies.
Released in 1995, Leftism is contemporaneous with the likes of Portishead’s Dummy William Orbit’s Strange Cargo Hinterland and Tricky’s Maxinquaye all having a similar flavour and vibe of tripping off your tits in a “presocial media world”.
Aside from a few tracks (Melt, Open Up and Original) I really can’t say that the album is that remarkable. Moby was doing similar stuff and so was Massive Attack I guess I just had my head too deep in Chris Isaak’s Forever Blue and other goings on to notice.
In the early noughties, while the rest of the internet and Guardian supplement cultured Gen-Xers were going wild for the likes of 
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