British duo The Chemical Brothers will release their seventh album, Further, on June 7. Their last album, We Are The Night, came out in 2007.
Few British electronic and dance music groups have been as popular as The Chemical Brothers. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons continue to attract diehard fans more than 15 years after the release of their first album, Exit Planet Dust.
The Chemical Brother’s last album, We Are The Night, was their fifth consecutive album to reach number one on the British charts.
Eight tracks on the new album will be accompanied by a film. The films were made by the duo’s longtime visual collaborators, Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall. Smith has been responsible for creating the visual backdrop for every Chemical Brothers gig since their live debut in 1994.
The films will premiere at the Roadhouse in London on May 20-23 and will be released on a DVD edition of Further.
TheChemicalBrothers.com website describes the new album like this: "It starts with what sounds like an alien morse code transmission; Earth bound signals bouncing off the side of orbiting space debris. Snatches of voices found out in the ether cut through the machine fog, drifting across burbling analogue equipment lovingly kept working long after supposed sell-by date. By the time the click and thump of snare and bass drum arrive, the sounds are all-encompassing, swirling around you with dizzying, disorientating effect."