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This is dance music for dance music's sake.
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On Further, The Chemical Brothers show no signs of fatigue, and the absence of any star names matters not a jot. It's better to continuously explode than fade away, or something.
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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.
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Further is at times a thrilling listen and barely puts a foot wrong, yet at a time when electronic music is expanding so quickly, it doesn't shine as brightly as it might have a decade ago.
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The whole album works something like an expansion on the last three fuzzed-out tracks from Dig Your Own Hole. The Chems aren't in the same do-no-wrong zone they were when they recorded that stuff, but Further brings them closer than anyone could've reasonably expected.
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This stripped-down effort forgoes the high-profile collaborations we've come to expect to create an unstrained, repetitive thumpathon that fits right into their catalogue.
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Eclecticism has always been the strength of the Chemical Brothers and with their seventh studio album Further they continue to develop musically.
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At a meager eight tracks, the enigmatic duo makes an audacious statement to its peers: quality usurps quantity every time.
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There was definitely a clear division as to what kind of album they were intending to make beforehand and it's brilliantly showcased all over. Further's opening two songs attest to this with a melting of new ideas that immediately signal a new coming.
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There's no risk here, but there's plenty that's right.
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Rowlands and Simons have a tighter grip on the material-an odd thing to say about an album with eight tracks built to sprawl, maybe, but Further really does flow from beginning to end, just the way its makers intended it to.
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There's nothing here that even the Chems themselves haven't done before, but that doesn't make the sensory thrills any less giddy.
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MojoThis is The Chemical Brothers at their crowd-pleasing, raucous best. [July 2010]
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Q MagazineAs the title promises, it's not so much a departure as a significant advancement of a career-long mission. [July 2010, p. 130]
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Alternative PressSo despite some standouts--thw more energetic and melodic "Dissolve" and "Swoon"--the Brothers' latest, trippiest trip is best taken as a whole. [Jul 2010, p.123]
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While Further ironically does little to further The Chemical Brothers' sound, they have once again produced a strong and sturdy album of high quality electronic music that still leaves many of their peers sounding one dimensional and unexciting.
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Positive: 25 out of 30
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Mixed: 3 out of 30
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Negative: 2 out of 30
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May 10, 2015
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Aug 21, 2015