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The Chemical Brothers debut new music

Having kept a relatively low profile of late, the first murmurs of new music from The Chemical Brothers’ camp has surfaced online, the legendary electronica duo placing ‘Electronic Battle Weapon #9’ on their MySpace page last week.

The ‘Electronic Battle Weapon’ series, previously only released on vinyl, has always given a taste of the Chems’ freshest music, albeit with a decidedly acidic approach. Although no details on their next album have been released, per se, the page does hold one cryptic comment for ardent fans of the duo’s work; “A small taste of what’s to come…”

Check it out for yourself HERE, and remember to stay tuned to ITM for updates.

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New Chemical Brothers album has a name

It’s We Are The Night. No details known at this point about who the Bros might rope in as collaborators for this go-round. It should be out at some time “in the early summer” per Astralwerks (which I guess means Astralwerks will still exist as an entity at that point to release it). The duo has only announced European tour dates so far, but should be adding U.S. appearances to their itinerary soon. Stay tuned…

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Pete Tong has been playing those "Electronic Battle Weapon" tracks on his show. They're really cool.

[busyboy]

Klaxons, Midlake Join Chemical Brothers' Party

April 10, 2007, 3:15 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

The Klaxons, Midlake, Willy Mason, Fatlip and Ali Love are among the guests on the Chemical Brothers' sixth album, "We Are the Night." As previously reported, the set is due June 19 via Astralwerks. Ali Love is featured on first single "Do It Again," a release date for which is pending.

Upstart U.K. rock act the Klaxons appear on "All Nights Reversed," while indie rock outfit Midlake guests on closer "The Pills Won't Help You Now." Mason, who also records for Astralwerks, is featured on "Battle Scars."

The Chemical Brothers will tour North America in September, but beforehand, will make a number of festival appearances in Europe this summer, including at the U.K.'s Glastonbury Festival in late June

Here is the track list for "We Are the Night":.

"No Path To Follow"
"We Are The Night"
"All Rights Reversed" (featuring the Klaxons)
"Saturate"
"Do It Again" (featuring Ali Love)
"Das Spiegel"
"The Salmon Dance" (featuring Fatlip)
"Burst Generator"
"A Modern Midnight Conversation"
"Battle Scars" (featuring Willy Mason)
"Harpoons"
"The Pills Won't Help You Now" (featuring Midlake)

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Tour dates from Pitchfork:

05-25 Bucharest, Romania - Sala Polivalenta
05-29 Zuid-Holland, Netherlands - Club 013
05-31 London, England - Roundhouse
06-09 Inverness, Scotland - Rock Ness
06-13 Belgrade, Serbia - Belgrade Arena
06-15 Milan, Italy - AC Idroscalo Est
06-16 Rome, Italy - Palalottomattica
06-22-24 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
06-29 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Music Halle
06-30 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
07-02 Dusseldorf, Germany - Phillipshalle
07-03 Munich, Germany - Zenith
07-04 Vienna, Austria - Area
07-06 Montreux, France - Montreux Jazz
07-07 Paris, France - Zenith
07-08 Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Rockhal
07-13 Madrid, Spain - Summercase
07-14 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase
08-09 Budapest, Hungary - Sziget Festival
08-10 Prague, Czech Republic - T-Mobile Arena
08-11 Saalburg, Germany - Sonnemondsterne
08-25 Halton, England - Creamfields
09-07 Isle of Wight, England - Bestival

[busyboy]

Oh, and by the way Pitchfork, Montreux is in Switzerland, not France...

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busyboy said:

"All Rights Reversed" (featuring the Klaxons)
"Do It Again" (featuring Ali Love)
"The Salmon Dance" (featuring Fatlip)
"Battle Scars" (featuring Willy Mason)
"The Pills Won't Help You Now" (featuring Midlake)

OK, so here are your token mainstream indie darlings du jour (Klaxons), your token backpacker rapper (Fatlip), your token UK "Urban" up-and-coming star (Ali Love), your token contemporary singer/songwriter (Willy Mason) and, finally, your token hipster esoteric indie flavor of the moment act (Midlake). All in all, it's pretty much the same formula of Push The Button. This doesn't bode very well, I'm afraid.

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Video - "Do it Again"

[busyboy]

Leaked!

[jaxxalude]

I know. Still, I've only heard the single. Can't say I was impressed, though. And even the remixes, while not bad, don't really help to elevate the song a bit higher. Looks like my lowered expectations might be coming true, I'm afraid.

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[busyboy]

Release date pushed back to July 2 because of artwork problem...

[busyboy]

Debuts atop the UK album chart.

[jaxxalude]

I just wanna say that this album fucking sucks, and it's their worst yet. I'll elaborate further later if I actually find the patience to waste my brain cells on such dreck!

[jaxxalude]

Oh well, it's Summer, the brain gets fried, and that certainly must have affected some of these critics' ears and sense too, probably...

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Billboard review:

We Are the Night
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
Producer(s): The Chemical Brothers
Label: Astralwerks

The Chemical Brothers certainly have their formula, but nearly 15 years on, their mix of rock-show beats and accessible synthetics remains a pleasing one. The Brothers have never strayed far from the rock'n'roll foundation that supports their best beats, but when this sixth CD opens with a cataclysm of "Transformers" noises, it signals a record that's a little more unapologetically electronic than their previous ones. The title track and hit first single "Do It Again" are born of the same hypnotic, churning code that the Brothers have been writing for years, but they also leave themselves space to plant little seeds of folky melody into their songs' mechanical exoskeletons on the oddly moving "Das Spiegel" and the epic "Burst Generator." They also score bonus points for employing rapper Fatlip to lay down vocals on the ridiculous and fully engaging "Salmon Dance." —Jeff Vrabel

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On an unrelated note, there was a blind item in the PopBitch gossip newsletter a few months ago about The Chemical Brothers which stated that of the two of them, only one of them actively contributes stuff and does all the live stuff while the other one "mimes" because he can't do the stuff, so the one who does everything makes a lot more money and the other one voluntarily gets reduced amounts. That's so sad if it's true.

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A new greatest hits collection will be released soon.

Here's the Billboard review:

Brotherhood
THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
Release Date: Sept. 2
Producer(s): Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons
Genre: ELECTRONIC
Label: Astralwerks

The Chemical Brothers' Grammy Award-winning catalog of sonic booms gets its second best-of in five years with "Brotherhood." But this one does that rare thing: It gives fans something meaningful they didn't have before (in addition to token brand-new track "Keep My Composure"). Since '96, the Chems have made a habit of releasing works-in-progress on vinyl to a small group of select DJs to test them out on dancefloors. Most went on to become B-sides or album tracks on five of their six long-players, in extended, abbreviated or otherwise tweaked forms. All 10 of these "Electronic Battle Weapons" are included on disc two of "Brotherhood," offering a unique snapshot of the duo at work. Now, fans can track how "Weapon 3" became the tauter, more relentless "Under the Influence" (on 1999's "Surrender") or finally find that song from the live show with the Freddy Krueger sample ("Weapon 7"). —Kerri Mason

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RIAA.com:

THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS
Title:GALVANIZE
Certification Date:December 9, 2020
Label:ASTRALWERKS
Format:SINGLE
Gold

Random! 1st RIAA cert in 13 years