Album Review: The Chemical Brothers – ‘Further’ (Freestyle Dust/Parlophone)

Seven albums in and Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons might no longer be raving on the most future-facing side of dancefloor, but their way with an effortless arms-in-the-air banger is undisputable. On ‘Snow’, what sounds like the buzz of a dodgy dial-up modem is layered with sweetly serene lady-vox and ‘Horse Power’ offers up an awesome kind of intensely sinister Berlin S&M dungeon disco. The hippified swirling of ‘Dissolve’, however, fails to claw its way into the contemporary canon even with an attempt at an Afro-beat outro while ‘Wonders Of The Deep’’s high is too self-consciously grandiose.

Leonie Cooper

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