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"eagerly anticipated" ... after the last couple of albums? Not really.
Still, I'm sure there will be at least one stunningly brilliant track on it as usual :)

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We are the night, we are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So lets start giving
Theres a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
its true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

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i generally find there are 2 stunningly beautiful tracks... not just one

that's just me

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yea srsly.

one brilliant track is not a case for continuing a band who still seems like they're persisting rather than creating since 1999.

i mean, i'll def. check this out, but i'll also be expecting so much more than what i'll get :(

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i have to admit, Dig Your Own Hole is still the greatest ever in so many ways

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Agreed....

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well, yeah.............................................. .....

its like in my top 5 ever.

IT. DOESN'T-- MAT-TER

though i think i love surrender almost as much

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their first 3 albumns are all superb! surrender i think might be my favorite with some absolutely stunning moments...

or the first... dig your own hole would be my least fav or those 3

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Dig Your Own Hole and Come With Us are both stellar albums. I don't know about "eagerly anticipated," but I'll definitely pick up the new album.

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yea - Come With Us was actually a pretty damn good album... I mean, sure there were some dodgy tracks, but the strong songs were so strong, that it kind of tipped the scales, you know?

but "Push the Button" ...man - there's only "Surface to Air" that I still really dig (well - "Believe" still gets some plays)

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Come With Us was a nice try but sooooooooo booooooring

Surrender really hasn't held up well.

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galvanize and hold tight london!

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I re-listened to "Push the Button" last night:

A very good start for the 5 first tracks: "Galvanize", "The Boxer", "Believe", "Hold Tight London" & "Come Inside" are fresh & boucing, but after it's kind of disaster. That awful "Left, Right", "Close your eyes" seems to be a Sufjan Stevens' track, "Shake break bounce" is probably the best track on the second half, with the good aerial & progressive "Surface to air" but this is the sort of track which appears on every Brothers album, and the very boring "Marvo Ging" which makes me think to "Big Mouth" by who know who.

Just curious to see what comes next...

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believe is such such such craaaaaaaaaap
where am i, an auto shop?
full of scantily clad men jumping in choreographed pandemonium, sexily fixing a crappy 89 toyota camry to thumping club beats while one of them uses a wrench as a mic yelling "i neeed you to beleeeeve!!!"

cheese factor times like a million.

though the boxer is also really hokey and thats one of about the two tracks i kinda like from it, sooooo....

yeah, this better be... better

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I agree but I was talking 'bout Push the button on it's own. "The Boxer" is a very... basical track but there's still this little thing which works(the chesse factor maybe :D ), but yes nothing really as good as their previous stuff...

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the last album was dare I say, just too dull. If they made a EBW album, I'd be there like a shot.

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well - I don't know if the EBW's are really that much of an indication of the quality of the coming album

I mean - #7 (Acid Children) was quite good, but nothing (save for "Surface to Air") is nearly as entertaining

although... it might be a positive sign if they're releaing two first (8 & 9) and both of them are pretty decent

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NEW ALBUM – WE ARE THE NIGHT
RELEASED 18th JUNE ON FREESTYLE DUST/VIRGIN RECORDS

Following their fourth consecutive number 1 album, the double Grammy winning “Push The Button”, The Chemical Brothers return with their sixth long player, set for release on 18th June 2007. “We Are The Night” is The Chemical Brothers finest record yet, twelve tracks of psychedelic warehouse party acid music, euphorically melodic and as uncompromising as their retina scorching live shows.

Recorded undercover of darkness in a bomb proof bunker in South London, “We Are The Night” is a route map through modern psychedelia; a derailed rollercoaster that barrels the listener onto a journey that moves seamlessly from frenetic percussion workout that threatens to splash out of the speakers to metronomic pulses that sound like the kind of music that gets played out at some kind of future disco populated entirely by robots; from the wheezing groans of modular synthesizers that sound like they’ve been left out in the rain to die to hallucinogenic public service announcements about salt water fish. All the while, disembodied robo-voices boom out mind control commandments as guest vocals weave in and out of tracks like previously undiscovered instruments…

Effortlessly evoking the dancefloors of Manchester and Minneapolis in the early 80s and London of 2007, “We Are The Night” is The Chemical Brothers at their very best. Infectious from the ominous opening through to the gorgeous dying embers, the record features some of their most mind-blowing music to date, a massive step up for the duo in terms of both production and sound. The album builds on the band's immense back catalogue and reaffirms them as true pioneers of electronic music, a band who are consistently hugely successful both critically and commercially.

“We Are The Night” follows on from 2005’s “Push The Button”, which featured the huge single “Galvanize”, the most played record on Radio One of that year. As is often the way with Chemical Brothers records, it achieved a life of it’s own, soundtracking everything from South American raves to the Notting Hill Carnival and all points in between. The duo recently sneaked out an album preview (the anonymously released ultra limited “Electronic Battle Weapon” 8 & 9). Much of the record has been tested out on dancefloors across the world during the past twelve months.

“We Are The Night” - the soundtrack to the summer just arrived...

Look out for ’Do It Again’, the first single to be taken from the album. Featuring Ali Love, its out 4th June.

Tracklisting:

1. No Path To Follow
2. We Are The Night
3. All Rights Reserved Ft. The Klaxons
4. Saturate
5. Do It Again Ft. Ali Love
6. Das Spiegel
7. The Salmon Dance Ft. Fatlip
8. Burst Generator
9. A Modern Midnight Conversation
10. Battle Scars. Ft Willy Mason
11. Harpoons
12. The Pills Won’t Help You Now Ft. Midlake.

The Chemical Brothers have exclusively announced that they will be headlining the Other Stage at Glastonbury this year.

To coincide with the album release The Chemical Brothers have also lined up some of their biggest shows to date with headline appearances confirmed at Rockness, Creamfields and Bestival.

www.myspace.com/thechemicalbrothers

Needless to say, i am totally anxious to hear this, and have them hit TORONTO again , hopefully in 2007.

jeesh...daft punk, the Chemies, and UW all in the same year ?
wow.

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The Salmon Dance? The fuck is that??

Other than that title, it sounds really good. Especially Burst Generator.

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The Klaxons, aaarghh :confused:

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Looks like a hip hop album with all the songs 'featuring' someone else. Come on guys...out of your own ideas?

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Chem Bros have always had a lot of guests on their albumns, now they just reference them in the same way (instead of hidden in liner notes)

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Maybe a bit off topic, but, regarding the whole "Featuring...." thing, imho it seems a bit desperate, having all these guests who oftentimes contribute little to the quality of the work and are onboard to lend credibility (indie, Hip Hop, whatever) or move units. For example, on Push the Button, you had Q-Tip, that guy from Bloc Party, the Magic Numbers (??), Tim Burgess, and whoever was rapping on "Left Right". That's a lot of guests, and imho, it made for the weakest CB album to date. i expect a Beth Orton appearance, or Tim Burgess/Richard ashcroft/Gallagher to be utilized, but c'mon, Chems, do your own thing!

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Pete Tong had the 'exclusive' first play of the new single "Do it Again" on his 1 hour "In new music.." show

CLICK HERE to listen again...

Mike

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It's ok, I don't really like the vocals that much

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worse than Galvanise

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I love the infectious bassline...

I heard i in my car driving home and it was really loud - it makes a difference to hear the bassline properly - i do kind of like Galvanise too, and i agree the vocals are annoying but i like the way the bass kicks in..

"Oh my god what have I done?"..

Mike

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The only thing that I really didn't care for on Galvanize was the mixing. The track itself I thought was ok. A bit generic, but still ok in my book.

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Extended HQ mix of "Do it Again" on YouTube....Click

After 3 listens I'm starting to warm up to it (meaning that by tomorrow I'll probably be humming this shit all day:rolleyes:;) )

Gym/club fodder at it's finest.:cool:

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"Do It Again" is a load of shit.

Geez.. I hope The Chem's don't turn out a shit album just like NIN this year.

Who's next - Radiohead? *Crosses fingers* I fucking hope not!

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Heard the single and not impressed at all, but i didn't like Galvanize to begin with so hopefully i'll warm to it.

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well - I have to say... it's definitely better than the vast majority of "Push the Button"

although, some parts did remind me of "Sexy Back"

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the Justin Timberlake one ?

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oh yea - I guess I should clarify a bit.

At least elements of "Do It Again" remind me a bit of Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back"... although it's been a while since I've heard the album version [as I'm not a fan of his music], so I might be thinking of the Riton remix (of 'sexy back')

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extended mix sounds allright. I mean, at the start it sounds really cool but the vocals just kill it for me.

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i dont usually post on here.. but i just had to pipe in that after listening to that track, i had to go back and listen to electrobank to remember what was special about the chemical brothers.

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Heard "Do It again" for the first time last night, and well... :(

But i remember that i rarely liked the lead-off single.

Like many, i discovered the Chems with "Dig Your Own Hole" in 1997. That's a tough album to match, so my expectations for "surrender" were really high. i think in the U.S., the lead-off single was "Let Forever Be", and i thought, "meh, what a bad retread of Setting Sun". Learned to love it, though.

Same with "It Began in Afrika". first listens = "WTF?". Later, i can't get enough of that jungle cat!

And the same with "Get Yourself High" and even "Galvanize". Q-Tip, NO! Soon became, "yes, Q-Tip, the time HAS come! Push that button!".

;)
hoping for the same effect this time around, once i hear the whole LP and let it work as a unified whole, the way i prefer to enjoy the Chemcical Brothers.

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i gave up on the brothers after their last release. push the button had one good song (london) rest was crappy.