The song samples "Let Me (Let Me Be Your Lover)" by Jimmy "Bo" Horne[3] and peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart.

A shuffling groove supports cool horns and a contagious chorus that is phattened by nifty femme vocal chants.

A great sound sampled from half a beat KC and the Sunshine Band pulls back, while Owen If whips the drums forward.

Three chorus girls, rapper Rob Birch and various samples decorate the landscape, but it is the sucks of the "two rhythm groups" that lock "Connected" into the memory and body of the defenseless listener.

"[10] Andrew Smith from Melody Maker complimented its "forbidding funk", "which marries a lazy, Mondays-style swagger with Curtis Mayfield-like melancholy".

[11] The magazine also noted that the song has "more than a hint of an Andrew Weatherall-esque shuffle", and concluded, "Once you've heard the chorus a couple of times, I guarantee you will be humming it until Christmas 1993.

"[12] A reviewer from Music & Media stated that it's a "sure hit", noting further that the new female vocalists are "shining over expressive rich grooves.

"[13] Alan Jones from Music Week said in his review of the album, that the introductory single, "with its pulsing bass, and slick femme harmonies is fairly typical of the fare here, with what raps there are well-couched and friendly.

"[14] Jim Carroll from NME called it a "chock-a-block wit jazzy flutes, chugging organs and Rob B's fine growling rap".

[15] Jonathan Bernstein from Spin remarked the song's "maximum uplift", writing, "Imagine a less lush Massive Attack and you're almost there.

"[16] Victor Haseman from The Stanford Daily found that the Stereo MC's "have made stitching their patchwork quilt of Euro-electro pop, hip-hop and house their top priority, tirelessly pushing it in new directions".

[23] An editor, Bill Lamb, remarked that the song "is propelled by a catchy but downbeat atmospheric brand of hip-hop.