Even If...

The self-assured Even If is Calibre's seventh album in nine years. It's the follow-up to ambitious 2008 effort Overflow. Compared to Shine a Light, Even If is definitely a drum & bass album, but now the polished metal of Overflow is encased in the former album's warm brandy glow. Like so much of the more minimal strain of drum & bass, Calibre's tracks sometimes feel too spare, relying on barebones loops and a few chords: stack that up eighteen times over the course of a double album and it gets tiring.