THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
SURRENDER (1997)
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While this may not be the definitive Chemical Brother's album it is certainly their most accessible. It seemed to cover so many genre's of dance from techno to house,trance to the all star rock mix with a heady array of guest vocalists.
The opener features a strong dance beat with vocoder vocals,long before Daft Punk made them exteremely fashionable again.Track 2 is a total hard house track.Massive in clubs,it's where this track can be appreciated most fully.A heaving drum machine belting out huge beats,backed by throbbing bass electronica and a disaffected female vocalist asking us repeatedly "Who's Under The Influence?"-well with tracks like this I am for starters!The 3rd track features the first of many outstanding contributions of guest vocalists.On this occasion Bernard Sumner manages to make this track a hybrid of all that's good from New Order to the duo themselves.Hope Sandoval,old favourite Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream,Oasis' Noel Gallagher and most amazingly Mercury Rev's Jonathan Donahue feature on this album.The Donahue track is totally different to anything else on this album.Of the other tracks "The sunshine underground" is this c.d.'s Private Psychedelic Reel-it's an astounding 8 minute piece that builds up quietly and slowly and steadily gains momentum until a spectacular and long climax.It's like the chill out track in the middle of the c.d.The huge hit "Hey Boy Hey Girl" is the best commercial dance track ever released by The Chemical Brother's.Based on pure electronica,techno and unusually for them very little distortion you'll find it hard to sit still listening to this track.This is my favourite of their c.d.'s.It may have lacked the cutting edge and freshness of it's predecessor-but it developed their unique sound to it's finest conclusion.

1. Music:Response
2. Under The Influence
3. Out of Control
4. Orange Wedge
5. Let Forever Be
6. The Sunshine Underground
7. Asleep From Day
8. Got Glint?
9. Hey Boy Hey Girl
10. Surrender
11. Dream On

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