Further

AlbumJun 14 / 20109 songs, 59m 37s
Electronic Neo-Psychedelia
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8.0 / 10

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

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For a duo so tied in the public mind to a specific time and place (circa 1997, when electronica didn’t become American pop’s next big thing), The Chemical Brothers have continued to reinvent themselves. Further, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons’ seventh album, sounds something like a return to the old school—meaning, in…

5.9 / 10

Further is the first Chemical Brothers album without a guest vocalist since their debut.

Further is by definition not the most embarrassing music of their career—merely the most boring.

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The dance veterans' new album sounds reassuringly familiar, like one of their pulverising live sets, says <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>

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3.5 / 5

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