The Chemical Brothers’ new album was released earlier this month.
The Chemical Brothers have premiered the official video for their Beck collaboration Skipping Like A Stone which features on For That Beautiful Feeling.
Beck, ‘shows off his vocal range on a track that is very much cut from the same cloth as their 2015 collaboration’, according to Live4ever’s review, which awarded the LP a score of 8/10:
“Goodbye changes the tempo, fusing a euphoric melancholy with stuttering percussion, tugging at the heartstrings with a simplistic melody (providing by a soulful but uncredited vocalist) and allowing the mind to wander.”
That’s before an ear-splitting klaxon designed to remind the listener of where they are. The slinky, metallic bop of Fountains is underpinned by a stuttering looped riff that recalls Chic, while the eerie Magic Wand pulses with an otherworldly timbre, like TV themes tunes of old.
“Then, at the mid-point, the realisation of quite how far Ed & Tom have travelled in their career hits home. Those of a more cynical disposition would argue not, but at some point (around 2010) they tweaked their sound to add some more traditional electronic fare and, in truth, sacrificed some of those block-rockin’ beats.”
