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The Chemical Brothers – Come With Us / Virgin Audio CD 2002
UPC 724381168226
Product Details:
Come with Us is the fourth studio album by English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers, released in January 2002 by record labels Virgin and Freestyle Dust in the UK and Astralwerks and Ultra in the US. It features Richard Ashcroft (ex-The Verve) and Beth Orton as guest vocalists.
The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the BPI on 1 February 2002.
Editorial Review:
Besides Tom Rolands and Ed Simons of the Chemical Brothers, few artists have the clout, chops, and DJ wherewithal to change the landscape of dance music. Still, it's not something the duo seems in a particular hurry to do. Since the release of the now-classic Exit Planet Dust, an intensely groove-able rap-stomp hodgepodge, and Dig Your Own Hole, their 1997 breakout record, big beat has been eating itself in a commercialized frat-boy frenzy. Yet the Brothers haven't found--or even really tried to find--that Something Else to turn the masses on in a different, exciting direction. True, their last full-length, Surrender, found them incorporating a house-ier feel, mixing a retro aesthetic with four-on-the-floor beats, but it was really the same old batch of clever samples and rolling thumps. Which wasn't necessarily a bad thing; most of us have happily run in place right along with them. Come with Us also finds them pulling all the usual tricks; there's an irresistible dance-floor anthem or two ("Star Guitar," "Denmark"), swooping keyboard tricks ("Come with Us"), guest vocalists (Beth Orton, Richard Ashcroft), and the amazing fluidity that allows a moody song like Orton's "The State We're In" to sound perfectly, logically in its place. While it sounds like they're coasting, their refined, sugary formula is so sweet, it's hard to complain. --Matthew Cooke
Tracklist:
| 1 | Come With Us
Performer [Sample From The Recording 'The Evidence'] – G. Chemouny, J. Claudel, Written-By [Co-written By] – Cooperman, Fairstein, Krissen, Rallo |
4:57 |
| 2 | It Began In Afrika
Performer [Sample From 'Drumbeat'] – Jim Ingram, Written-By [Co-written By] – Ingram |
6:16 |
| 3 | Galaxy Bounce | 3:27 |
| 4 | Star Guitar | 6:27 |
| 5 | Hoops
Written-By [Co-written By], Performer [Samples From The Association Recording 'Round Again'] – Alexander |
6:31 |
| 6 | My Elastic Eye
Written-By [Co-written By], Performer [Elements Sampled From 'Tic Tac Nocturne'] – Estardy |
3:41 |
| 7 | The State We're In | 6:26 |
| 8 | Denmark | 5:07 |
| 9 | Pioneer Skies
Written-By [Co-written By], Performer [Elements Sampled From 'Yellow Train'] – Camison, Bachelet |
4:04 |
| 10 |
The Test
Performer [Part Of The Improvisation In The Recording 'Pielgrzym'] – C. Niemen, Written-By [Co-written By] – Czeslaw Niemen, Ashcroft |
7:46 |
About the Band:
The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo composed of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, originating in Manchester in 1989. Along with the Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, and other fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture. They achieved widespread success when their second album Dig Your Own Hole topped the UK charts in 1997. In the United Kingdom they have had six number one albums and thirteen Top Twenty singles, including two number ones. In the United States they have won six Grammy Awards including "Best Rock Instrumental Performance", "Best Dance Recording" and "Best Dance/Electronic Album" of the year as recently as 2020.
More Details:
- Art Direction – Blue Source, The Chemical Brothers
- Artwork [Art Screenprints] – Kate Gibb
- Edited By – Cheeky Paul
- Engineer – Steve Dub
- Engineer [Assistant] – Greg Fleming
- Mastered By – Mike Marsh
- Musician [Additional Musician] – Beverley Skeete, Greg Fleming, James Hunt, Shovell
- Performer [The Players] – Ed Simons, Tom Rowlands
- Producer – The Chemical Brothers
- Vocals – Beth Orton, Richard Ashcroft
- Written-By – Simons, Rowlands
