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The Chemical Brothers - Push The Button (CD)

Push The Button
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Album Details: Push The Button

Release Date:06/11/2008
Label:Toshiba Emi Japan
UPC:4988006867734

Track List: Push The Button

  1. Galvanize  
  2. The Boxer  
  3. Believe  
  4. Hold Tight London  
  5. Come Inside  
  6. The Big Jump  
  1. Left Right  
  2. Close Your Eyes  
  3. Shake Break Bounce  
  4. Marvo Ging  
  5. Surface To Air  

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    Come inside

    By partyanimal  Feb 23, 2005 | 8 out of 12 found this Push The Button review helpful

    Pros: The only good song on the album

    Cons: Quit degrading yourself with adding rappers

    I thought there was only two good songs on the whole album....surface to air and come inside. Your losing the Chemical Brotherhood by adding rappers to your songs. Stick with the female background vocals and leave out the male rappers. Also your synt...hs are sounding cheaper instead of the high quality synth sounds in the past. The drum machine beats sound like kids toys. With newer and better technology you should be getting better, not worse Read more Less

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    Chemical Rollercoaster

    By Joël  Dec 2, 2006

    Pros: Hold Tight London, Marvo Ging, Surface to Air

    Cons: sound starts looking a little cheap, Left Right, Come Inside

    The Chemical Brothers used to have a finely-tuned sound, and of a keen genre, but this time it all sounds a bit common and cheap. This is definitely not the best album from The Chemical Brothers. It looks like they didn't want to take too many r...isks and do what everyone else is doing and succeeding with. Bad bad chems! But for us fans there are still plenty of goodies, toward the end of the album. The beginning of the album looks a bit common, you know, like in "is this really from the Chemical Brothers? It looks more like Oasis to me." Ok, not that far, but you got the point. Towards the middle you start to think this is just another album to forget, in spite of "Hold Tight London", and towards the end, it's home run after all, with CLose Your Eyes, Shake Break Bounce, Marvo Ging and Surface To Air. GALVANIZE - *** - the album's single, but this is not Chemical Brothers'. It's more some sort of rap, composed to try to sell the album to a larger public. But well realized, nonetheless. THE BOXER - **** - I love this track, for how it's high pitched and rhytmed BELIEVE - *** - Industrial electronica, I like it, but I expected more from the album. This is the point where the album started to look a bit flat to me... HOLD TIGHT LONDON- ***** - ...and then it hits us. This track is very long, very cool, but I love it. COME INSIDE - * - hated it. This track is some sort of recall from "Surrender" (the album), but a very bad one THE BIG JUMP- *** - there's not much to say. 3 stars because it's funny, otherwise i'd give it just 2 COME INSIDE - * - This is like Galvanise, except the sound is *very* cheap, I expected a lot more from the chems CLOSE YOUR EYES - **** - the track looks rough and unfinished, but somehow I love it. Maybe because the music and the voices and the lyrics all suggest pleasant images. To me it rocks becauses everything fits together. SHAKE BREAK BOUNCE - ***** - This is so fun-ky, fun-ky. 5 stars MARVO GING - **** - vintage video game sound, remixed by the Chemical Brothers SURFACE TO AIR - **** - Every album has a final epic track which rocks. This is no exception. Read more Less

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  • All Music Guide

    When the big beat boom gradually subsided, the Chemical Brothers initially sought refuge within a carefully crafted version of house music both epic and psychedelic. Still, the duo are fusion fans at heart, and their fifth studio album, Push the Button, finds them easing back to their true love pulverizing stylistic boundaries while they seek out clever hooks to hang their production caps on. The first half of the record is heavy on collaboration, beginning with the clear highlight, "Galvanize," which features guest QTip riding a delicious midtempo groove and the brothers teasing out an ingenious Middle Eastern string sample over the course of several breakdowns and over six minutes. "The Boxer" has ChemBros veteran Tim Burgess of the Charlatans UK coming on like an extroverted Steve Miller, while the next track, "Believe," features Britpop newcomer Kele Okereke (of Bloc Party) agonizing over an energized electroshock production composed of equal parts Prince and Chicago acid house. I...t's clear the Chemical Brothers are still searching restlessly for new sounds and new fusions; only they could alternate a polemical hiphop track "Left Right," a guest spot for Anwar Superstar, who, incidentally, may be the younger brother of Mos Def, but sounds like he's been living in JayZ's head for a few years with a feature for an indie band, the Magic Numbers ("Close Your Eyes"). Obviously, it's far more refreshing to explore new territory rather than merely go back over old ground; while "Come Inside" suffers by aping their 1997 approach, the subsequent track, "The Big Jump," finds the pair energized with a fresh gloss on their patented sound (although it is easy to notice how the skronky guitars in the background are clearly a postelectroclash development). While there aren't as many heartstopping productions as on 2002's unjustly neglected Come With Us, Push the Button proves the Chemical Brothers have retained the innate curiosity necessary to keep them blazing trails for years to come. - John Bush, All Music Guide Read more Less

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The Chemical Brothers

The act with the first arena-sized sound in the electronica movement, the Chemical Brothers united such varying influences as Public Enemy, Cabaret Voltaire and My Bloody Valentine to create a dance-rock-rap fusion which rivalled the best old-school DJs on their own terms -- keeping a crowd of people on the floor by working through any number of groove-oriented styles f... Read more
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