Rhythm and Stealth
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| Studio album by Leftfield | ||||
| Released | 20 September 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
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| Length | 52:48 | |||
| Label | Hard Hands, Higher Ground, Sony BMG | |||
| Producer | Leftfield and Nick Rapaccioli (track 6) | |||
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Cover for re–release with remix CD
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| Singles from Rhythm and Stealth | ||||
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| AllMusic |   |
| NME | 6/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 6.3/10 |
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Rhythm and Stealth is the second album by Leftfield released on 20 September 1999. It was the follow-up to 1995's Leftism. The album reached No. 1 in the UK album chart. It was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2000 but lost out to Badly Drawn Boy's The Hour of Bewilderbeast.
Rhythm and Stealth sees the band enter a darker sound with heavy influences on breakbeat, downtempo and dub. The album is popular with the public due to the song "Phat Planet", being featured in Guinness' 1999 advert Surfers and the theme to the animated series Beast Machines, although the song was never released as a single. The best selling single from the album was "Afrika Shox" featuring Afrika Bambaataa which peaked at No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart.
The album was released on CD, cassette, double-LP, quintuple 10" box set and MiniDisc (COLUMBIA 488527 8). "Double Flash" was one of the songs that was remixed into the European release of MTV Music Generator, known as Music 2000. The album was re-released on 29 May 2000 with a bonus disk of remixed versions which was also released as an album on its own, Stealth Remixes. The song "Swords" was featured in the 1999 film Go.
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