Dive Deep is the sixth and latest album from Morcheeba, who over the last decade have become the multi-million-selling darlings of downtempo with their soul and country-inflected, sampladelic mood music.

Here is an outfit whose refusal to be categorised musically extends to their very set-up, being a group only in the loosest sense of the word. On their first five albums they explored the gamut of contemporary alt.dance genres, pioneering a song-based form of dance music that would soon become known as trip hop or chill-out while collaborating with a variety of singers and musicians that posited Morcheeba as an eclectic and open-minded collective.

That idea is made explicit on Dive Deep. In 2008, Morcheeba have become a vehicle for the thoughts and experiments of brothers Paul and Ross Godfrey, with no fixed singer but rather a series of vocalists who enhance the atmosphere of fluidity and free-form exploration. "A lot of them I contacted through MySpace,"" explains Paul, "and they were all people who wanted to genuinely contribute something. This made the whole process extremely easy. The songs were mainly co-written with the guests spontaneously in the studio. I had an emotional template for the album and they picked it up and ran with it.

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