The Chemical Brothers - Push The Button

Artist:

Chemical Brothers (The)

Description:

The Chemical Brothers: Ed Simons, Tom Rowlands.
Additional personnel: Q-Tip, Tim Burgess, Kele Okereke, Anwar Superstar, The Magic Numbers (vocals).
The Chemical Brothers` fifth album--a stunning return to bold, brilliant, mid-1990s form--delivers fierce beats, propulsive rhythms, and hallucinatory samples that are, if anything, even better than some of the duo`s earliest work, moving in exciting and different directions.
The requisite "big beat" dance-floor material is exemplified by "The Big Jump" and the ever-evolving "Believe" (with vocals by Bloc Party`s Kele Okereke), but the real surprise here is the wealth of gentler tracks. "Hold Tight London" features a lovely vocal by Anna-Lynne Williams and a glistening sonic edge that`s both glacial and warm, and the lengthy, gorgeous instrumental "Surface to Air" glides along on haunting, beat-driven lines. Then there`s the flipside of that, as on "Galvanize," a deep-funk-fried slice of Arabian techno-rap featuring Q-Tip, and "Left Right," a blistering anti-war track with rhymes by Anwar Superstar. Unlike much of the Brothers` earlier output, PUSH THE BUTTON covers a lot of ground, uncovering other sonic worlds just beneath the well-tread electronica surface.

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Galvanize
2. Boxer, The
3. Believe
4. Hold Tight London
5. Come Inside
6. Big Jump, The
7. Left Right
8. Close Your Eyes
9. Shake Break Bounce
10. Marvo Ging
11. Surface to Air

Album Information

Release Date:

01/25/2005

Type:

Performer

Genre:

R&B

Subgenre:

Dance

Label:

Astralwerks (Record Label)

Catalog Number:

63282

Original Release Year:

2005

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Guest Artist:

Q-Tip

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