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i bet you'd given up on this thread, hadn't you?
i bet you were all like 'fucking barbe-no-nothings and their guilty feet with no rhythm...'
but i'm here for you, planet. i'm here to say, yup, i like the album a lot. y'know how much? y'know how much i like this album?
i'm listening to it...right. now.
switching down a gear, yeah - 'galaxy bounce' is great (did you know it was the tomb raider theme?) kind of old school, but i don't have a problem with that - and the percussive scratching near the end is sooooo nice.
personal fave as far as i go is 'my elastic eye' - it's got the kitsch, trancey samples of a 'daydream' or a 'give it up', the fluid stylophone-y bass of a 'stiggs in love' - amazing clusters of beats - the kind of psychedelic sampledelic choral section you wanna sing along to even though it's made entirely by machines... - yup, that's the one. baby terminator in a nursery. doesn't get any better than that.
more generally, i'm really very glad this album is as good as it very very definitely is. i hated 'surrender' - seems to me they hit a full retreat from big beat, and got lost on a trance bandwagon - sounding completely secondhand in the process. and i never understood why the defensiveness on their part - sure, there was a lot of novelty bullshit that came in their wake - fatboy and bentleys springing to mind as the worst offenders, but i think the chemicals, up to 'dig yr own hole' were always too smart, too damn classy for that. they were my scratchtable heroes, deej shadow-style sound collage for the dancefloor.
'come with us' takes 'em back to a time when the tracks were more important than the collaborators, and the texture chganged with every listen.
they're fucking ace.
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