Faultline: Your Love Means Everything : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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The best vocal performance by Coldplay singer Chris Martin this year does not appear on his band's excellent A Rush of Blood to the Head, but on the latest release by leftfield British producer David Kosten. Recording under the name Faultline, the studio buff has a reputation for eclecticism, even by dance music's loose standards. The title track of his 1999 debut, Closer Colder, sampled Dennis Hopper and featured a song built around a death threat left on his answering machine. Faultline's new disc boasts vocal contributions from the Flaming Lip's Wayne Coyne and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe. But it is Martin's gloriously lusty turn on "Where Is My Boy?" that sets itself apart, approached only by his follow-up appearance on the mesmerizing piano ballad, "Your Love Means Everything Pt. 2." The rest of the disc is saddled with flatulent electronic noodling and a cinematic air that never reaches the same emotional heights as the vocal tracks, and Stipe's soporific work on "Greenfields" is best left unmentioned.

AIDIN VAZIRI
(Sept. 9, 2002)