Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

sigh. standard downward trend. only slightly better than push the button because the title track was pretty exciting to hear from them, EBW8 made it on there, and the last track is a good fuzzy one. but most of the rest is either uninteresting or kinda bad

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

There are some fun tracks on it, but it's basicly kinda meh. Of course, this is first impression.

It feels as if they're using the same tricks since Dig Your Own Hole. That album was original, but I could hear similar build ups and other tricks in every following album. Kinda tired with it.

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

The video for Do It Again is amusing.

We Are The NIght
 

The new album reminds me somewhat the old albums, especially Come With Us on some songs, where was chemical sound taken to the perfection. Its still there, its Chemical Brothers, but
its knows that since Push the Button the sound have changed, I like very much Push The Button, its album that contains pretty big tunes like on this new album. But its not conceptüal album like Surrender or Come With Us. This new album is the same concept like on Push The Button, you meet some tracks that you will really like.
Its not wicked beat ride like was on Come With Us, its album that contains big hits like Push The Button, so I like it.

You will recognize the Chemical Brothers from the first sound, its the one of the most unique electronic bands, Im glad that they are still with us.

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

[COLOR=seagreen]Mikes Traffic Light Review[/COLOR]

[COLOR=seagreen]Nice Track[/COLOR]
[COLOR=orange]Listen again[/COLOR]
[COLOR=red]Yuk![/COLOR]

[COLOR=orange]No Path to Follow[/COLOR] - War of The Worlds ;) You will hear the vocal later on..
[COLOR=seagreen]We Are the Night[/COLOR] - Yeah, reflects pretty much the same sort of theme opening tracks on the Chems albums - good track.
[COLOR=seagreen]All Rights Reserved[/COLOR] - Heavy bass, nice work - will probably be the next single - sounds quite different to previous stuff, progressive.
[COLOR=seagreen]Saturate [/COLOR]- EBW8 - Dirty.
[COLOR=seagreen]Do it Again ft. Squeeky Man[/COLOR] - Yeah, i love it, great bassline.
[COLOR=orange]Das Spiegel[/COLOR] - Airy, light, builds up - i feel like ive heard it before.
[COLOR=red]Salmon Dance[/COLOR] - Embarasing, annoying, SKIP
[COLOR=seagreen]Burst Generator (HOT TRACK)[/COLOR] - Part of it sounds like a slowed down version of EBW6 / Hoops - i keep on seeing dancing white horses when i hear it. Actually, this is a really nice track, it feel like its the wrong tempo, but it does appear to speed up...
[COLOR=orange]Modern Midnight[/COLOR] - Sounds like a really cool retro pop song, proabably from 1986 when Ghostbusters was made, and proabably just failed to make the soundtrack. I don't like the loud synth though, i don't think i will play this one lound in my car.
[COLOR=red]Battle Scars -[/COLOR][COLOR=black] Same vocal as the opening track, i hate it. SKIP next time.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=orange]Harpoons[/COLOR] - The Test (pt1) - its an abient track, it could bold on as an intro to The Test.. And i reckon they will use it as their intro on their live set - i just feel it could build into something more, it just goes no-where.
[COLOR=orange]Pills Wont Help You[/COLOR] - Its that pop synth again ;) It builds up nicely at some stages, but for me it just doesn't flow - i just get irritated listening to it..

[COLOR=seagreen]Overall[/COLOR] - Some really nice tracks, nothing that makes me go 'WOW' - but maybye in time...

Food Review Coming Soon!

EDIT:

I just listened to it in the car, the best place to listen to any CD.

[COLOR=black]It has grown on me already, compared with Push The Button it is much more listenable, only a couple of annoying tracks - and some fantastic bass :) It vibrates my eyeballs. (and my other balls).[/COLOR]

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

impressions after a couple of listens:

No Path To Follow - well, just a little looped intro, not much to say about it

We Are The Night - This is good. Nice up-tempo happy song to get us going.

All Rights Reserved - Meh, this is not so good. Why do the chems insist on whiny out of tune backing vocals all the time? Maybe without that annoying wailing in the background it might be a decent track. The main vocals are pretty forgettable as well.

Saturate - Nice instrumental with good buildups.

Do it Again - Yeah I like the bassline too, too bad about the whiny high pitched vocals (again). Leave that to Justin Timberlake please.

Das Spiegel - I guess it's the flute thingy but this reminds me of New Order. I like the sort of vocal giggle/screech effect that's used troughout the song. Nice bubbly happy track.

The Salmon Dance - Errr, it's quite funny actually. It sounds like it would fit right in on a Bloodhound Gang album or something (ok I kinda like the BG ;))

Burst Generator - I agree with Mike, this track is great, but feels somewhat slow. I think it would work better as a full-on dance track but it's still a nice "hands in the air" moment.

A Modern Midnight Conversation - Ah some vocal that are not annoying for a change. A nice groovy bassline, lots of echoying space sounds and some sitar in the background make this pretty classic Chems. The 80's synth sounds a bit out of place though.

Battle Scars - I don't know what to say about this. It bores the hell out of me that's for sure.

Harpoons - This sounds like it should build up into the big fucking huge closing track but sadly it doesn't. Still a good ambient piece.

The Pills Won't Help You Now - Well as usual this is in some ways the most epic track on the album. It's not the big banging dance tune I was expecting, but actually reminds me a lot of Radiohead. Goosebumps time :) Probably my favourite tune together with We Are The Night.

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

Just picked it up, I think it's pretty good. I know I'll get lynched for this but I honestly think that every Chemicals album is as good as any other one, so I was happy to see the new one was just as good. Burst Generator is amazing, and I like Modern Midnight Conversation a lot too. The single is pretty lame though...

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

Hey i agree with you, i don't really dislike any albums - to be honest i much prefer the newer stuff to the older stuff.

I only really got into the Chems about 3-4 years ago because of the 'singles' album, and i tended to skip to the second half of the album because thats the stuff i prefer really (maybye its just that the 1995 / 1997 stuff sounds a bit dated to me?)(except the live re-worked tracks).

Its the same feeling im getting about Underworld at the moment - im finding it difficult to listen to dubno / stiti. I just don't find them easy to listen to anymore, because my music tastes have changed.... i need to hear some new, fresh material other than web releases that are nice, but not finished material. I thought Silver Boots was quite good. The silver boots / year beat / push jam from the dirtyradio broadcast were fantastic.

Im gonna stop jibbering now.

Mike

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

Only other song I've heard so far is We Are the Night and it sounds like Golden Path and Psych Reel kinda.....dumb vocal sample though. Not too bad of a tune, I think it'll grow on me.:)

Re: new chemical brothers album and tour
 

burst generator is really the only worthwhile track IMO.

other than the salmon dance...and that's just because it makes me smile ever so slightly.