Push The Button
Packed with cameos from Q-Tip, The Charlatans\' Tim Burgess, and Bloc Party\'s Kele Okereke, 2005\'s *Push the Button* was the Chems\' most song-oriented effort to date. Exhibit A: \"Galvanize,\" a rousing hip-house number that’s powerful enough to shout along to. Tackling winsome alt-rock, steely dance-punk, and even Bollywood breaks, the duo bend all manner of styles to their will, and on cuts like the flamenco-infused funk of \"Shake Break Bounce,\" the results are truly out of this world.
When the big beat boom gradually subsided, the Chemical Brothers initially sought refuge within a carefully crafted version of house music both epic and psychedelic.
Push the Button is tinged with fatigue, but a decade of LSD has been known to have such side effects.
If it is easy to conclude -- in hindsight -- that 2001's Come With Us was something of a disappointment, it is a great relief to report that Push the...