The Chemical Brothers - Further

[chems1919]

I'm still praying they will tour the east coast this August (preferably the Florida region...seems like they only tour NY when it comes to the east coast). I was hoping to go to the Hollywood Bowl because I was going to be in the area, but I ended up going to Cali last month instead of this August. Did you guys score some good seats?

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just from the amazon snippets and comments here, i'm very excited about this!

[Jafs]

Kind of return to form as expected, but never as good as a Dig Your Own Hole...

[joethelion]

wow - this album is GREAT

I scored a promo leak of it a few days ago, then got the "Further - the Visual Experience" download today as a part of the iTunes pass

The idea of "no collaborations" is a bit misleading though... I originally thought that meant "no vocals" - which isn't true, it's just that they've gone back to using snippets of vocals instead of full "songs"

"K+d+b" took me by surprise, b/c it starts out so kraut-rocky then just builds and builds

...strangely though about the iTunes pass - you get the "Visual Experience" which is all the videos back-to-back. Then later you get each individual video (just seems like a lot of HD space)

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that pass looks interesting - hope it'll be available in the uk store...

[chems1919]

Is Tom the one that's singing on the majority of these songs? The voice is obviously distorted a bit, but it sounds good.

[unwound floors]

Fucking tight album, a real return to form for the Chems. This year's been great for electronic music, and here's yet another example.

[stimpee]

This album sounds very chems. Could have been released anytime in the last 10 years. Its more of the same. Good but doesnt grab you by the balls.

[holden]

Fighting download urge - gotta wait till the US release date in a week or so.

is it sad that i have bought the last 4 Chems albums the day they came out? That's how into them i was after "Exit Planet Dust" and "Dig Your Own Hole".

"Surrender" took quite a while to grow on me, as it was both more pastoral and more glossy than the sample-heavy big beat that preceeded it.

"Come With Us" (imho, their last great album) owned my stereo for weeks.

"Push the Button" and "We Are the Night" - they have their moments, but nothing that i really dig.

But i'm reallllly liking what i hear about/of this - return to form/by the numbers 90's era/ psychodelic, hatever - these are all good things after the crappy hip hop and flavor of the month collabs of the last two.

[joethelion]

I reconciled the whole "do I download" question by telling myself it was ok, b/c the entire video is already available on US iTunes

I agree about "Come With Us" - definitely their last 'great' album

I can never keep "Push the Button" and "We Are the Night" apart. I always confuse the two, b/c neither one of them had many tracks that really GRABBED me. That being said, I did like the Electronic Battle Weapons from that period... and the last track on "Push the Button"

Originally Posted by holden

Fighting download urge - gotta wait till the US release date in a week or so.

is it sad that i have bought the last 4 Chems albums the day they came out? That's how into them i was after "Exit Planet Dust" and "Dig Your Own Hole".

"Surrender" took quite a while to grow on me, as it was both more pastoral and more glossy than the sample-heavy big beat that preceeded it.

"Come With Us" (imho, their last great album) owned my stereo for weeks.

"Push the Button" and "We Are the Night" - they have their moments, but nothing that i really dig.

But i'm reallllly liking what i hear about/of this - return to form/by the numbers 90's era/ psychodelic, hatever - these are all good things after the crappy hip hop and flavor of the month collabs of the last two.