The Chemical Brothers - Further

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this has been on play pretty regularly since Saturday. It's pretty fantastic.
There are a lot of hooks and sounds that seem like they belong on "Surrender" and that record's various B-side singles. Only a couple dancefloor bangers ("Escape Velocity" and "Horse Power"), but many pretty moments and big walls of sound. A little self-indlugent in spots (despite being only 52 minutes long, a few tracks take their sweet time fading into the next), and some passages that really rock that could have been developed further (eyeroll), but i'd say this is the biggest sonic departure for the Chemicals since "Surrender" and their best album since "Come With Us".