With that "un-calculated", surely Un-Cut doth protest too much. Even if the trio didn't actually sit down and hatch a plan to annex the nation's coffee tables, they still sound like an A&R man's dream come true.

Despite their "drum'n'bass" tag, tumbling breakbeats dominate only three tracks. They are the best ones, too, with their cannily chosen samples, crisp beats and - a rarity for drum'n'bass - proper songwriting.

The remainder feature the faintly discernible sound of boxes being ticked. Skin II Skin's R&B grind might have the Neptunes' lawyers on the phone, Falling is off-the-peg nu-soul and Off Key is a slithery homage to blaxploitation funk - something that dance music is never exactly short of.

Apart from Music Is M's hopeless stab at jazz poetry, it's all pleasant enough, but the, yes, calculated slickness of Un-Cut's risk-free soul ultimately leaves a bad taste in the mouth.