The Chemical Brothers Further (2xLP)

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• Further is the seventh studio album by The Chemical Brothers, released in 2010. It marks a deliberate shift in approach: the duo pared back guest vocalists, instead choosing to explore more atmospheric soundscapes and extended instrumental passages. Tracks like Snow and Escape Velocity set the tone with spacious synth layers, feedback, and motorik pulses, establishing a mood that trades bombast for introspective energy. Despite the quieter moments, there are still peaks of intensity through complex beat structures and vivid sonic imagery that draw on their earlier catalog without leaning heavily on past formulas.

  Visually ambitious as well, each of the albums eight tracks is accompanied by its own film directed by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall, reinforcing the immersive, journey-like quality of the record. The flow from track to track is treated almost as a single continuous suite: moments of drama and tension alternate gracefully with more dreamlike passages and melodic interludes. Further demonstrates that even more than a decade into their career, The Chemical Brothers remain capable of evolving, not simply revisiting, while delivering something that feels both familiar and fresh.

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  Scrapping big-name guests and harnessing the live fury theyve shown in recent years, the Chems make their best LP in more than a decade. Pitchfork

  Seven albums in and Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons might no longer be raving on the most future-facing side of dancefloor, but their way with an effortless arms-in-the-air banger is undisputable. NME

  For a duo so tied in the public mind to a specific time and place (circa 1997, when electronica didnt become American pops next big thing), The Chemical Brothers have continued to reinvent themselves. The A.V. Club

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  AllMusic rating: AllMusic users: (366 votes) Read the AllMusic.com review

• Artist: The Chemical Brothers Label: Freestyle Dust, Parlophone, Virgin Format: LP Units: 2 Country: UK & Europe Genre: Electronic Style: Big Beat

• A1 Snow
  A2 Escape Velocity
  B1 Another World
  B2 Dissolve
  C1 Horse Power
  C2 Swoon
  D1 K+D+B
  D2 Wonders Of The Deep