Born In The Echoes
On *Born in the Echoes*, The Chemical Brothers immediately put a couple things to great use: their wide-ranging sonic palette and an equally impressive Rolodex. But while friends like Beck, St. Vincent, and Q-Tip star on a mix of sometimes-breezy, sometimes-bumpin\' pop and dance tunes, the Chems never turn their back on their underground roots. “Just Bang” is a classic, acid-inspired breakbeat track, while the breathy synth-scape “Radiate” will keep you guessing about what’s next.
Born in the Echoes continues the creative resurgence ignited by the Chemical Brothers' brilliant last full-length, 2010’s Further. In contrast to that album's loved-up euphoria, Echoes is a grab bag: Festival fillers and club bangers rub up against wondrously bizarre studio experiments and some of the best pure pop songs Rowlands and Simons have ever made.
The Big Beat pioneers return with an inspired choice of collaborators and if this is to be their swansong, it’s a fitting way to exit planet dust
An album that fades in -- grinding and beeping like a space shuttle returning to Earth -- Born in the Echoes is the first LP in five years from the Chemical Brothers.
Whether it's as a long-term fan, one who cites them as a gateway into dance music, or one who has only asked for another one of them "Block...
Twenty years strong, eight albums deep, and five years' anticipation, the hope is that The Chemical Brothers' latest, Born in the Echoes, will introduce some subtlety and song craft to today's dancefloor bangers.
The Chemical Brothers seem a long way past their creative best on this well made but inspiration-free new album
The duo's first album in five years, featuring Beck and St Vincent, sounds like heavy metal compared to today's sugar-rush EDM
Eighth album from dance music perennials rejects notions they're on the wane. CD new music review by Thomas H Green