“Basement Jaxx were early dance polyglots in the Nineties, incorporating global sounds into their house and U.K. garage beats. The London duo's ears are as open as ever on their seventh album: Kicking off with a sample from First Nations powwow singers Northern Cree, they cherry-pick a dream team of power divas and U.K.-funky progenitors, sourcing styles that include garage, house, hip-hop, disco –”
“Twenty years after Basement Jaxx's first release, the dance veterans' new album is a strange one, in the sense that it's not really strange at all. Junto is fundamentally sound, never content to stay in one place for too long but not all that scattershot when it comes to going off the experimental deep end.”
