Rooty is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Basement Jaxx, released on 25 June 2001.

The music labels behind this release were XL and Astralwerks in the UK and US.

Like its predecessor Remedy, Rooty was well-received critically and commercially. Five singles were released from the album: "Romeo", "Jus 1 Kiss", "Where's Your Head At", "Get Me Off" and the Australia-only single "Do Your Thing".

The album's first single, "Romeo", was released on 4 June 2001.

Rooty was released on 25 June 2001. Further singles released from the album were "Jus 1 Kiss", on 24 September, "Where's Your Head At", on 26 November, "Get Me Off", on 17 June 2002, and "Do Your Thing" in Australia only, on 2 December 2003.

The album got reissued in late 2022, 20 years after it was first released.^[7]

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	82/100[8]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Blender	[10]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[11]
The Guardian	[12]
NME	8/10[13]
Pitchfork	3.8/10[14]
Q	[15]
Rolling Stone	[16]
Spin	8/10[17]
The Village Voice	A−[18]

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Rooty has been well received by critics. John Bush of AllMusic gave it 5 out of 5 stars, calling it "so raw you can't believe they spent over an hour per track, so perfect you're glad they stopped noodling about long before most producers would, and so poppy they should get picked up by commercial radio in America as well as the rest of the world".^[9] David Browne of Entertainment Weekly gave it an A− grade and called the album "where heart and feet meet and lovingly coexist".^[11] Robert Christgau of Village Voice gave it the same grade, writing "no catchier collection of jingles has come to my attention since Steve Miller made his mint off jet airliners".^[18] Billboard said the album "revels in exploiting rhythms that shouldn't work—but definitely do".^[19] PopMatters's Andy Hermann was mixed, calling the album "either a brilliantly innovative record, or an unlistenable mess, depending on your point of view".^[20]

Pitchfork's initial opinion on the album, however, was generally negative. While calling band members Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe "two of the weirdest, most innovative and talented house producers on the scene," reviewer Malcolm Seymour III wrote that "[Basement Jaxx] have taken kitsch too far," noting that the music is "often so tacky that it's impossible to stomach."^[14] However, Pitchfork would later name Rooty the 33rd best album of the 2000s.^[21]

Q listed Rooty as one of the best 50 albums of 2001.^[22] Kludge ranked it at number three on their list of top 10 albums of 2001.^[23]

All tracks are written by Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, except where noted. Songwriting credits adapted from BMI.^[24]

Sample credits^[25]

• "Breakaway" contains samples of "Lady Sun" and "You Are a Winner", both written by Bernard "Beloyd" Taylor and performed by Earth, Wind & Fire.
• "Jus 1 Kiss" contains samples of "You Can't Do It Alone", written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers and performed by Chic.
• "Broken Dreams" contains samples of "Costa Brava", written by Digno García and Glen Powell and performed by Felix de Ypacarai y sus Paraguayos.
• "Where's Your Head At" contains samples of "M.E." and "This Wreckage", both written and performed by Gary Numan.
• "Do Your Thing" contains samples of "Fungi Mama", written by Blue Mitchell and performed by Kenny Barron.

Credits for Rooty adapted from album liner notes.^[25]