Chemical Brothers s/d

This just in:

Following their fifth consecutive number 1 album last year, the Grammy award winning ‘We Are The Night’, The Chemical Brothers return with ‘Brotherhood’ a best of collection with a kick and a twist, set for release on 1st September 2008.

In a career that to date has spanned 13 years and accrued 9 million record sales Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have established themselves as true pioneers of electronic music and as The Chemical Brothers they have become one of the most popular dance acts of all time. Now seems the perfect time to take stock of their seminal output with the double disc celebration that is Brotherhood.

Brotherhood comprises of 2 discs, the first is a collection of 14 undeniable benchmark Singles from the bands immense back catalogue and new track ‘Keep My Composure’ which features the shimmering flow of Baltimore’s Spank Rock.

The 2nd will feature exclusively Electronic Battle Weapons 1-10. Since 1996 Electronic Battle Weapons have acted as the laboratories for The Chems devious musical experiments and laid the rhythmic and melodic foundations for numerous tracks as well as providing some of the duos most formidable mixes. Until now Electronic Battle Weapons1-9 have only been available on various limited formats and this is the first time they have been widely available.

Brotherhood will be preceded by the digital download single Midnight Madness. Derived and developed from Electronic Battle Weapons 10 Midnight Madness is The Chemical Brothers at there most infectious, euphoric, report to the dancefloor best.

Midnight Madness is released on the 18th August.
Brotherhood is released on 1st September both on Freestyle Dust/Virgin Records

TRACKLISTING

DISC 1

1. Galvanize
2. Hey Boy Hey Girl
3. Block Rockin’ Beats
4. Do It Again
5. Believe
6. Star Guitar
7. Let Forever Be
8. Leave Home
9. Keep My Composure
10. Saturate
11. Out Of Control
12. Midnight Madness
13. The Golden Path
14. Setting Sun
15. Chemical Beats

DISC 2
1-10 Electronic Battle Weapons

compare with the last best-of, which came out in 2004:

1. Song To The Siren
2. Chemical Beats
3. Leave Home
4. Setting Sun
5. Block Rockin' Beats
6. Private Psychedelic Reel
7. Hey Boy Hey Girl
8. Let Forever Be
9. Out Of Control
10. Star Guitar
11. Test
12. Get Yourself High - Chemical Brothers & K-Os
13. Golden Path - Chemical Brothers & The Flaming Lips

EBWs
It Doesn't Matter
Don't Stop The Rock
Under The Influence
Freak Of The Week
It Began In Afrika
Hoops
Galvanize
Saturate
ebw9 = ?
ebw10 = ?

According to the press release, ebw10 = Midnight Madness.

#7 was Acid Children, not Gavanise

press release sez Midnight Madness is not #10 but is based on it

(and EBW6 was a remix after the fact, not a trial early version like most of the others)

i heard EBW6 way before Hoops. got info re 7 from discogs tho.

"shimmering flow of Baltimore’s Spank Rock."

Shimmering?

babbling brook more like

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other than the limited teaser extra cd, i just dont see who this is aimed at.
surely, any casual fans already have the current 'best of' collection, especially seeing as the cd is stocked at bargain basement prices.
truly baffling.

yeah, in Australia the current in-print version is the best-of, the bonus disc from the first release, AND the DVD best-of, all in a three-part gatefold DVD-sized box... in a slipcase... for under twenty bucks.

end of contract I guess?

are the EBWs diff't versions of these tracks??

they tended to be dancier mixes of what you'd later hear on the albums

new single was on C4 last night. it's pretty dire imo - sounds like what some euro trance-lite dude would come up with.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xcHF_RhSW-0

i think ebw 10 is the best song of the year so far... it's so incredibly happy.

midnight midnight MIDNIGHT

I don't have the second disk but the Spank Rock track rules.

'come with us' is a pretty dope album imo

i even like this corny ass shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDe6MZQjpho

should we do an "electronic battle weapons" poll???

we should!

Needs YouTube links, I keep forgetting which is which.

deej OTM

Surprised there was no bump for Further (one of their best IMO)

Anyone heard the soundtrack they did for "Hanna"?

I've only heard pieces of it but so far it seems to be way better than the stuff Daft Punk churned out for "Tron Legacy"...

Chemical Brothers - Further (June 2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwZOid42f2g

Olympic velodrome theme:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/17/london-2012-chemical-brothers

I approve of this musics

wow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC2dRkm8ATU

had a hard time watching that

pretty cool though

theyre back

its like 1999 all over again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTBNONSR9F8

theyre back

a long, fallow two months since their last video :D

its like 1999 all over again

otm though, but feels like it fades out halfway through

and another, probably my favorite of the three. once again the video is fantastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSYwtllbweY

everything I've heard from this sounds like it could've slotted in between Surrender and Come With Us. Even the cover art looks like a real throwback to their early days

I’m a fan of pretty much the entire Chems career arc, up to and including Born In The Echoes, but I find it hard to argue that these new tracks aren’t a step up compared to their recent work & that the album in April probably will be as well
(The live version of “Free Yourself” is better tho)

Also fun fact the No Geography cover is lifted wholesale from the insert art of the first Godley & Creme album (which in all likelihood won’t keep it from being one of my favorites of 2019 come the end of the year):
https://www.discogs.com/release/871182-Consequences/images

Chems good up to Dig Your Own Hole. Couple of singles replicated and slightly altered their formula with decent results, but if they had only made their first two albums and then quit, they'd be considered just as good.

admittedly Dig holds up a lot better than I thought it would. but I still think they made the right choice going where they did - the fact that their new singles are racking up millions of views is pretty impressive. personally I'm with Champ, I kinda like everything they've ever done to some degree, even the clunkier albums like We Are the Night or Born in the Echoes are pretty fun. In my mind Further is their best album but I'm guessing that one didn't sell quite like their others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfSM-lv55I

this is probably one of the best music videos I've ever seen

It's not even one of the best chemical brothers videos! Got to Keep on is better, could stand to be even weirder. Neither are a patch on Star Guitar or Let Forever Be. As for the songs, zzzzz.

sorry I'm a sucker for dog-centric videos

I will admit to tearing up a bit at the part where they’re sending the dog into space as his handler proudly watches, even though I hadn’t really been paying attention to the screen up to that point. Guess that’s the hallmark of a good video? Maybe?
As for the song, I can kind of imagine it being demoted to the “cameos from the slower, more breakbeat-y parts of our discography” segue in their live sets by the next tour cycle, if it even makes it that far, but the soul sample is well-selected and well-incorporated and the Aurora vocals are excellent (which bodes well since she’s supposed to be on a fair amount of this album).

Besides all arguments about video accompaniments to Chems music have been moot since around 2007 when the Smith + Lyall live visuals became the definitive pairing for whatever they were putting out

interesting that nearly all the singles released are from the second half of the album

Some version of the opener, “Eve Of Destruction”, has been done for awhile, as evidenced by its presence as a vocal snippet (complete with visuals) in the setlist last summer w/ all the No Geography tracks that have come out by now, plus this recording from a DJ set a bit before the tour started:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/110uhJIYNjsTSLqb8tOp1SzfL3C2V6o3x/view

So yeah, it seems weird to me that we’ve gotten a track that wasn’t previewed at all (apart from a short cameo in a bbc mix) before “Eve Of Destruction”. Maybe it’s gonna be their “big single” (heavy airquotes for a Chemical Brothers song coming out in 2019) to coincide with the album rollout?

Played "Got To Keep On" at a party last weekend, it went down a storm!

Salmon Dance is fun I just wish the album it was on was better

That album is good, though. “We Are The Night” and “Battle Scars” are fantastic and I am not part of the posse that dislikes “The Salmon Dance”

Not as good as their last one but new album is still pretty good. Wasn't sure about some of the singles but they work really well in the context of the album.

This is about more than just the Chemical Brothers but I didn't know which thread would be best

https://musictech.com/news/industry/the-chemical-brothers-touring-us-not-viable/

I noticed Geoff Barrow (the Portishead guy) say this on social media:

I can’t stand the chemical brothers never have
Awful music for dullards

Cool guy!

only single I've heard is "Live Again" which has one of the coolest guitar sounds I've ever heard

wanna grab it on vinyl but man it's so expensive

Geoff being a silly billy yet again

Not as good as their last one but new album is still pretty good.

Yeah, it didn't grab me right away like the last one did, and it seems to have fallen into a crack in the earth as far as press coverage. I'll give it another listen this week, though.

It's a good album but... maybe my least favourite. Too early to tell.

the-chemical-brothers-touring-us-not-viable/

huge thanks to Tom & Ed for playing Seattle in between the two weekends of Coachella this year

Not that surprising. It's not like they're jusrlt taking a drumkit and some guitars and synths with them. Their current live set up includes two 30ft tall robots that shoot lasers from their eyes ffs

The other pre-album singles did nothing for me but Live Again might be my favourite thing I've ever heard them do

Listening to the new one right now, I get what folks are saying about it — it’s consistent, solid, and enjoyable, just doesn’t blow minds or anything.

On a sidenote, it’s startling to look at the overall discography and realize how much music these guys put out in the 21st century that I’ve just … totally missed those album cycles somehow

(The new record reminds me, in some ways, of buying a Crystal Method album in like 2004 - it was fine, or a little better than fine, you know?)

boxedjoy otm

Live Again is pure gold, who knew all I wanted from life was a My Bloody Valentine / Todd Edwards mashup

New album is nice on first listen, but maybe like a slightly less thumping retread of the last one?

not heard the new one yet but this made me smile

We used to get quite tongue-tied around him (Weatherall). I remember being in a nightclub asking him what synths he’d bought. He said: “I’m waiting for the Chekhov Warp.” Which I took to mean a new synth we hadn’t heard of. A couple of weeks later I realised he meant he was waiting for the “cheque off Warp” records to buy new equipment, so when we remixed Saint Etienne’s Like a Motorway we called it the Chekhov Warp mix.

lol, that's fantastic.

Sick remix too - and new to me!

the more you hear re weatherall, the more you love him.