This is about more than just the Chemical Brothers but I didn't know which thread would be best
https://musictech.com/news/industry/the-chemical-brothers-touring-us-not-viable/
― StanM, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:19 (seven months ago) link
I noticed Geoff Barrow (the Portishead guy) say this on social media:
I can’t stand the chemical brothers never haveAwful music for dullards
Cool guy!
― stylized in all lowercase (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:27 (seven months ago) link
only single I've heard is "Live Again" which has one of the coolest guitar sounds I've ever heard
wanna grab it on vinyl but man it's so expensive
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:27 (seven months ago) link
Geoff being a silly billy yet again
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:35 (seven months ago) link
Not as good as their last one but new album is still pretty good.
Yeah, it didn't grab me right away like the last one did, and it seems to have fallen into a crack in the earth as far as press coverage. I'll give it another listen this week, though.
― read-only (unperson), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 16:35 (seven months ago) link
It's a good album but... maybe my least favourite. Too early to tell.
the-chemical-brothers-touring-us-not-viable/
huge thanks to Tom & Ed for playing Seattle in between the two weekends of Coachella this year
― vashti funyuns (sic), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 17:36 (seven months ago) link
Not that surprising. It's not like they're jusrlt taking a drumkit and some guitars and synths with them. Their current live set up includes two 30ft tall robots that shoot lasers from their eyes ffs
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 18:40 (seven months ago) link
The other pre-album singles did nothing for me but Live Again might be my favourite thing I've ever heard them do
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 19:44 (seven months ago) link
Listening to the new one right now, I get what folks are saying about it — it’s consistent, solid, and enjoyable, just doesn’t blow minds or anything.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:48 (seven months ago) link
On a sidenote, it’s startling to look at the overall discography and realize how much music these guys put out in the 21st century that I’ve just … totally missed those album cycles somehow
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:49 (seven months ago) link
(The new record reminds me, in some ways, of buying a Crystal Method album in like 2004 - it was fine, or a little better than fine, you know?)
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 24 September 2023 15:59 (seven months ago) link
boxedjoy otm Live Again is pure gold, who knew all I wanted from life was a My Bloody Valentine / Todd Edwards mashup
― Xgau Murder Spa (nikola), Monday, 25 September 2023 13:45 (seven months ago) link
New album is nice on first listen, but maybe like a slightly less thumping retread of the last one?
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Monday, 25 September 2023 18:22 (seven months ago) link
not heard the new one yet but this made me smileWe used to get quite tongue-tied around him (Weatherall). I remember being in a nightclub asking him what synths he’d bought. He said: “I’m waiting for the Chekhov Warp.” Which I took to mean a new synth we hadn’t heard of. A couple of weeks later I realised he meant he was waiting for the “cheque off Warp” records to buy new equipment, so when we remixed Saint Etienne’s Like a Motorway we called it the Chekhov Warp mix.
― nashwan, Thursday, 19 October 2023 17:49 (six months ago) link
lol, that's fantastic.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2023 17:51 (six months ago) link
Sick remix too - and new to me!
― octobeard, Thursday, 19 October 2023 18:37 (six months ago) link
the more you hear re weatherall, the more you love him.
― mark e, Thursday, 19 October 2023 19:25 (six months ago) link