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Track List
01) Snow
02) Escape Velocity
03) Another World
04) Dissolve
05) Horse Power
06) Swoon
07) K+D+B
08) Wonders of the Deep
09) Don't Think
01) Snow
02) Escape Velocity
03) Another World
04) Dissolve
05) Horse Power
06) Swoon
07) K+D+B
08) Wonders of the Deep
09) Don't Think
5:06
11:57
5:40
6:21
5:51
6:05
5:40
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7:44
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First Released
2010
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Further is the seventh studio album by The Chemical Brothers, released on June 14, 2010. The album title and release date were announced on the band's official website on March 30, 2010. All 8 tracks from the album are accompanied by corresponding films, made specifically to match them, by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyal. The main character of the films is portrayed by actress Romola Garai. The woman on the album cover is Jenny Godding, who also body doubled for the underwater portions of the music videos.
The album, along with its visuals, was released as a DVD, as an iTunes LP, and as an iTunes Pass feature in US only. As a part of the iTunes Pass program, those who purchase it will receive an unreleased track, named "Pourquoi", on June 29, 2010. (Pourquoi means 'why' in French.) The standard edition was released on CD, containing just the eight track album.
Further is their first album to not feature any guest collaborations, a common occurrence in previous albums. While this is true, Stephanie Dosen provided the vocals for "Snow", "Another World" and "K+D+B". These are guest appearances, including Theremin performances by Bruce Woolley, but they do not count as collaborations since The Chemical Brothers did not work with the artists when writing the songs. Tom[who?] also sang on certain tracks.
The album was the duo's first on Parlophone, ending fourteen years of releases on Virgin, although both labels are owned by EMI.
Although it charted in many other countries, the album was excluded from the UK charts because British chart regulations forbid prizes being used as enticements to buy albums, and all formats of Further included a competition to win an iPad.
Further was nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 2011 Grammy Awards, but lost to La Roux's self-titled debut album.
The bonus track "Don't Think" was featured in the 2010 film Black Swan, in an altered form.
The track Dissolve was featured as a playlist on the 2012 video game Lumines Electronic Symphony.
User Album Review
The Chemical Brothers were always a step ahead, a step Further (ho ho) if you will. While their contemporaries crashed, burned, and then possibly reformed, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have kept their material fresh for six ”“ five of which have been chart-toppers ”“ studio albums of high-quality shape-throwing, and there’s no reason given here why they should throw in their rave towels now.
Dispensing with the usual guest vocalists of previous works, seventh album Further is more in the vein of the duo’s Electronic Battle Weapon tracks, where they would road test still-evolving tracks in their DJ sets, and with Further they’ve turned eight of these into a colossal throbbing whole, accompanied by a DVD put together by their long-time visual collaborators Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall. Adam himself has been building up a directing sideline, helming a couple of episodes in the current Dr Who series, which to anyone who’s ever witnessed the Chems’ live spectacle makes perfect sense.
Free from building tunes to fit collaborators ”“ with the exception of snatches of Tom or Stephanie Dosen (on Snow), used more as accents and motifs than to guide proceedings ”“ the duo are let loose to stretch their disco legs and make the technology the star. Synths are brutally manhandled and pushed to their limits across the eight tracks, with the pair’s well-known winning recipe of techno textures and mind-tilting psychedelia unleashed. This is a band that sets their stall out with acid house as a starting point, and have managed to carve out new shapes from it ever since.
Highlight-wise, Escape Velocity builds and builds and builds to giddying heights of arms-aloft euphoria and transports you into air-punching hysteria. Horse Power is mental in a superb off-your-box polyphonic rave assault style, giving way to the My Bloody Valentine-inspired Swoon with shards of weaving noise fizzing across grin-inducing acidic bliss-pop. K+B+D Krauts out gorgeously into a propulsive nod-fest, and closer Wonders of the Deep burbles and glows in its own orbit, comprising a glorious star-gazing finale.
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. Really rather wonderful indeed.
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Further is the seventh studio album by The Chemical Brothers, released on June 14, 2010. The album title and release date were announced on the band's official website on March 30, 2010. All 8 tracks from the album are accompanied by corresponding films, made specifically to match them, by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyal. The main character of the films is portrayed by actress Romola Garai. The woman on the album cover is Jenny Godding, who also body doubled for the underwater portions of the music videos.
The album, along with its visuals, was released as a DVD, as an iTunes LP, and as an iTunes Pass feature in US only. As a part of the iTunes Pass program, those who purchase it will receive an unreleased track, named "Pourquoi", on June 29, 2010. (Pourquoi means 'why' in French.) The standard edition was released on CD, containing just the eight track album.
Further is their first album to not feature any guest collaborations, a common occurrence in previous albums. While this is true, Stephanie Dosen provided the vocals for "Snow", "Another World" and "K+D+B". These are guest appearances, including Theremin performances by Bruce Woolley, but they do not count as collaborations since The Chemical Brothers did not work with the artists when writing the songs. Tom[who?] also sang on certain tracks.
The album was the duo's first on Parlophone, ending fourteen years of releases on Virgin, although both labels are owned by EMI.
Although it charted in many other countries, the album was excluded from the UK charts because British chart regulations forbid prizes being used as enticements to buy albums, and all formats of Further included a competition to win an iPad.
Further was nominated for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 2011 Grammy Awards, but lost to La Roux's self-titled debut album.
The bonus track "Don't Think" was featured in the 2010 film Black Swan, in an altered form.
The track Dissolve was featured as a playlist on the 2012 video game Lumines Electronic Symphony.
User Album Review
The Chemical Brothers were always a step ahead, a step Further (ho ho) if you will. While their contemporaries crashed, burned, and then possibly reformed, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have kept their material fresh for six ”“ five of which have been chart-toppers ”“ studio albums of high-quality shape-throwing, and there’s no reason given here why they should throw in their rave towels now.
Dispensing with the usual guest vocalists of previous works, seventh album Further is more in the vein of the duo’s Electronic Battle Weapon tracks, where they would road test still-evolving tracks in their DJ sets, and with Further they’ve turned eight of these into a colossal throbbing whole, accompanied by a DVD put together by their long-time visual collaborators Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall. Adam himself has been building up a directing sideline, helming a couple of episodes in the current Dr Who series, which to anyone who’s ever witnessed the Chems’ live spectacle makes perfect sense.
Free from building tunes to fit collaborators ”“ with the exception of snatches of Tom or Stephanie Dosen (on Snow), used more as accents and motifs than to guide proceedings ”“ the duo are let loose to stretch their disco legs and make the technology the star. Synths are brutally manhandled and pushed to their limits across the eight tracks, with the pair’s well-known winning recipe of techno textures and mind-tilting psychedelia unleashed. This is a band that sets their stall out with acid house as a starting point, and have managed to carve out new shapes from it ever since.
Highlight-wise, Escape Velocity builds and builds and builds to giddying heights of arms-aloft euphoria and transports you into air-punching hysteria. Horse Power is mental in a superb off-your-box polyphonic rave assault style, giving way to the My Bloody Valentine-inspired Swoon with shards of weaving noise fizzing across grin-inducing acidic bliss-pop. K+B+D Krauts out gorgeously into a propulsive nod-fest, and closer Wonders of the Deep burbles and glows in its own orbit, comprising a glorious star-gazing finale.
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. Really rather wonderful indeed.
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