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Rating: Come with us.
It's the year 2002 and I didn’t really know the Chemical Brothers yet. One fine day, I turned on the TV to MTV and it was like a blessing from heaven. It was love at first sight between me and that dreamy video which is "Star Guitar". That same afternoon, I went to buy the CD (the first one I bought for myself, now that I think about it). I put it in the stereo in my room. And there I went. I let myself be carried away by them... by a music I still didn’t quite know well enough... tribal sounds, drums, bongos… then techno… also lion roars… a clean, truly refined sound. That's what can be said of "Come With Us". A work crafted down to the finest details.
After all, after releasing an album like "Surrender" which sold who knows how many thousands of copies, they certainly couldn’t make a poor impression with a half-baked work (something that unfortunately cannot be said of "Push The Button"). Well… in my opinion, up to this point the two artists had not yet fallen into a more dance sound (to dance?), "music for the masses" just to be clear. Songs like "It Began In Afrika" or "Galaxy Bounce" show that there was a decisive change from the sound of "Dig Your Own Hole" and "Exit Planet Dust" preferring a much more techno sound (as in "Hoops") but still enjoyable, and surely it made not a few old fans wrinkle their noses.
An album where every track is simply a gem if you are a fan of the genre. Nevertheless, it’s worth highlighting the songs "It Began In Afrika" with its "bizarre" beginning full of animal roar samples, then literally exploding with beats driven by (excuse the repetition) techno tones, or "The State We’re In" because, as we know, the brothers know how to make us both dance and dream. And so here, as if by appointment, a "calm" song if you can say so. The album continues with two other notable songs like "Pioneer Skies", truly an "anthem" in my opinion. One of those songs to listen to and be silent. And it is with this song that I want to close the review. Because after listening to all the songs, watching the videos of both "Star Guitar" and "The Test" with clear references to traveling, I think the message they wanted to send is clear. Travel. Join them and let yourself be carried away by the music that only they know how to create. In my opinion, there is very little time left for the release of a new work by the Chemical Brothers.
And it is works like these that keep me going, seeing the music releases of 2006, filled with works like Mondo Marcio or Finley. Or reading magazines that elevate Fabri Fibra to artist of the year. If these are also the premises for 2007, I pray to God for the fast release of the works of Smashing Pumpkins, Prodigy, and of course Chemical Brothers. I take this opportunity to wish you a happy New Year.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Come With Us (04:57)
Come with us
And leave your Earth behind
Bright and clear
We see the light
All universes at your side!
Please lead us to other suns' warm light
Behold
They're coming back
Behold
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
They're coming back
Come with us...
05 Hoops (06:31)
Here I go round again again again...
Think that I'll never come down again again again...
07 The State We're In (06:26)
I've been workin' baby for too long now
Just wanna get next to you boy
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
Gotta get through to you boy
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
All of the time, all of the time, all of the time
You took it all of the time
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
I've been workin' baby for too long now
Just wanna get next to you boy
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
Gotta get through to you boy
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
Never said it was sunshine but you took it all of the time
All of the time, all of the time, all of the time
You took it all of the time
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
There's no escaping now
Let me show you how
What it feels to be true
I've been workin' baby for too long now
I've been searchin' baby, a way to tell you how
10 The Test (07:46)
O-o-o-o-oh
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
yeeeh
Am I coming through?
Am I coming through?
Is this sweet and pure and true?
Devil came by this morning,
Said he had
Something to show me
I was looking like I've never seen a face before
Here we go now, let's slide into the open door
Pictures and things that I've done before
Circling around me,
Out here on the floor
I'm dreaming this and I'm dreaming that
Regretting nothing
Think about that
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Lord, I'm shining
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
You know I almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I've almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I almost lost my mind
I couldn't explain
What I've seen
Im happy now to have seen it
To find that the images are fading away
I'm seeing waves breaking forms to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking forms to my horizon, lord
I'm shining yeah
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
Are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
You know I almost lost my mind
I can't explain
Where I've been
You know I almost lost my mind
I couldn't explain
The things I've seen
But now I think I see the light
Now I think I see the light
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
Lend me your hand
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon
Yeah I'm shining
I'm seeing waves breaking form to my horizon, lord
I'm shining
Oh are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you
Oh are you hearing me?
Like I'm hearing you?
(Repeat)
You know I almost lost my mind
Now I'm home, and I'm free
Did I pass the acid test?
Did I pass the acid test?
(Repeat)
You'd better go to bed now
(Repeat)
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By Rivo
Aside from the poor "It Began In Africa," the album is good.
It’s not love, but it’s a nice album. Get my drift?
By karl
The album is formally beautiful, impeccable, with deep bass entering on hi-hats, but there isn’t a single song that makes me want to dig into the pile of CDs and play it right away.
Respect, but nothing more than that.
By PortoFolio
It’s impossible to resist these two geniuses, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons.
What is present in Come with Us is a melting pot of emotions, rhythms, and sounds that get stuck in your head.
