release date: Jul. 2, 2007
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,98]
producer: The Chemical Brothers
label: Freestyle Dust / Virgin - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 7. "The Salmon Dance (feat. Fatlip)" - 12. "The Pills Won't Help You Now (feat. Tim Smith)"
6th studio album by The Chemical Brothers and a bit of a low point in their career. I think that many thought The Chem Bros were history at the point of this release. Everyone wanted to work with the duo and they featured and collaborated on other artists' works - here they welcome too many different artists, which is a continued procedure as on Push the Button, only here the guest artists play a more dominant part, which makes it a bit of a bland experience. Klaxons feature on "All Rights Reversed", making the track sound more like Klaxons than The Chemical Brothers (which can't be good), and same thing goes for "Battle Scars (feat. Willy Mason)" - a rather strange electronic folk rock [!] composition.
The album cover is great, though! And it still contains a few good tracks including #12, and the best track: the hilarious hip-hop rap and big beat tune #7, The Salmon Dance (feat. Fatlip).
[ allmusic.com 3 / 5, PopMatters, The Guardian, Uncut 4 / 5 stars ]
