Chemical Brothers s/d

you mean The Test, right? or is there another track called The Acid Test?

ok so I never actually bought a copy of Come With Us, I downloaded it way back when MP3s were always mistagged so I assumed that was just the actual name of the song

Yeah I just mean "The Test" - when I think of the song all I can hear in my head is Richard Ashcroft asking "did I pass the acid test?", and it's up there with "how does it feel like?" as one of the more annoying questions asked in modern music.

otm, I like The Test apart from that so if is a bummer

all the lyrics in that song are annoying but the pure beauty of the "are you feeling me like I'm feeling you" part makes up for it

interesting to compare all these to Out of Control which seems to be the opposite, the boys just enjoying themselves

You know what other song sounds like the boys just enjoying themselves, is "The Salmon Dance"

lol

The Salmon Dance sounds like the boys trying to write Gorillaz song. Possibly even a Plastic Beach song, 3 years before that album even came out.

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.