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"No Geography" is the ninth studio album by English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers. It was released on 12 April 2019 by Virgin EMI Records. It is their first album in four years.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 84, based on 6 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".
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The futuristic Manchester duo return with another spell-binding and forward-thinking collection of festival smashers, still light years ahead of their peers.
‘No Geography’ is another leap forward for the pair – it embraces new avenues of discovery and nods to the wider world, while having the feel of a victory lap and retrospective. Take the opening of ‘Eve Of Destruction’ which features a doomy opening statement about the end being nigh, but is soon seized by an elasticated bassline reminiscent of their 2002 song ‘Galaxy Bounce’. Similarly, this album’s previously released singles ‘Got To Keep On’ and ‘Mad As Hell’ reach the same euphoric heights of club-smashers ‘Hey Boy, Hey Girl’ and ‘Galvanise’, though take more adventurous journeys to get there.
The reduction of guests – and, as a result, and increase in ‘traditional’ songwriting structures – has prompted this unstoppable machine to experiment, and it appears they’re finding a bit of fun in doing so. There’s the frantic percussion that haunts ‘Bango’ before eerie vocals emerge, while ‘Gravity Drops’, which packs the droning beat of a techno-slapper, seeks more comfort in ambient surroundings in the song’s second half.
Reviewed by Thomas Smith for nme.com.
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