Chemical Brothers

Editor's Review:

To their credit, the Chemical Brothers' mainstream success is due in part to their ability to synthesize electronic dance genres like house and purely creative music without succumbing to formulaic "thump-tsss" monotony. Come With Us, their fifth full-length release, shows them maintaining this talent, albeit with a hit and miss result common to artists playing off dance music. In some cases, Come With Us succeeds with aces. The haunting, filtered vocals on "Star Guitar" can be pure hypnotic goodness when heard on a system capable of conveying strong pan-effects, and the inventive use of classical instrument samples on "Come With Us" and "My Elastic Eye" are pure gold. Despite this, however, some of the tracks sound like lame house badly disguised with token modifications on the aforementioned beat. And that animal growl on "It Began in Afrika" just sounds like Slaughter. These gripes notwithstanding, Come With Us is possibly the best mainstream electronic release I've heard in the better part of a year.
-Trent Yarosevich



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Record Label Astralwerks Released February 2002

Tracks Come With Us It Began in Afrika Galaxy Bounce Star Guitar Hoops My Elastic Eye The State We're In Denmark Pioneer Skies The Test