A ‘chillout’ album doesn’t necessarily have to be a must-have for the red hot summer season – it’s just as vital for the (current) gloomy, muggy, rainy, miserable days of winter (while you’re at home curled up on the sofa with a cup of hot chocolate, of course).
Ministry Of Sound’s longest selling series brings us a three-disc collection of down-tempo house, electronica and some acoustic gems spanning the last 15 years – from Coldplay, Beth Orton and Angus & Julia Stone, to Groove Armada, Kaskade, Passion Pit and Florence + The Machine. It’s a nice little trip down memory lane overall (make sure you check out Peter Bjorn And John’s Young Folks, Sneaker Pimps’ 6 Underground and Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black), cementing some of the tracks as truly ‘classics’ in all sense of the word.
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