new chemical brothers album and tour

[Leon]

Originally Posted by holden

with the "let's party" vibe that comes out of recent singles like "get Yourself high",

JUST GET YOURSELF HIGH!


That tune rocks, and the videoclip too.

[MikeyC]

i read an article when come with us came out and the guy had it right on. said that basically the chemical brothers had lost their spirit of experimenting in the studio. maybe because software/hardware had made things a bit more cut and dry 2000 onwards (recycle instead of manually cutting and mapping breaks/samples comes to mind), but everything that made the production so gritty and beautiful from e.p.d and d.y.o.h. was gone. they werent setting loop points in strange places, werent distorting entire mixes with guitar pedals. it all became too clean and lost all of that funk/experimental/drug fueled sound. they were never ones for amazing song writing. they were good at making these ridiculous collages of samples (the first two albums and singles were almost entirely created with samples). and theyve suffered since they stopped doing it.

personally i think surrender was still an amazing album even if clean. it was a strange marriage of styles.

[m-nus_orange]

So in other words.. they have since "matured" and possibly stopped taking illicit substances.