Release Info
No Geography is the ninth studio album by The Chemical Brothers. It is scheduled to be released on 12 April 2019. The first single, "Free Yourself", was released in 28 September 2018, with "MAH" (Mad as Hell) following in 7 January 2019. On 1 February they released the third single, "Got to Keep On". On 8 March, The Chemical Brothers released the fourth single, "We've Got to Try". * If No Geography is The Chemical Brothers' most daring album in 20 yearsâand it isâthatâs partly due to Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons tapping back into the mid-â90s, a time when they were helping to radically redefine the possibilities for UK dance music. To sow that spirit of experimentalism into their ninth album, the pair exhumed the old samplers they used to make their first two albums. âI set up a corner of my studio that was âThe 1997 Corner,ââ Tom tells Apple Music. âIt was very rudimentary, the sort of thing that Iâd have set up in my bedroom a long time ago. Thereâs a particular sound in these old samplers, and their limitations spur you being more creative in how you use samples and throw things together.â Another inspiring throwback was to play unfinished music in their live sets, allowing the songs to evolve and change on stage, as they had done while making 1995âs Exit Planet Dust and Dig Your Own Hole in 1997. The result is uplifting, aggressive, and contemplative, meshing breakbeats, samples, and multiple shades of dance music with a keen understanding of psychedelia and melody. Here, Tom takes us through the album track by track. âEve of Destructionâ âI saw (Norwegian alt-pop singer-songwriter) Aurora on TV, playing at Glastonbury, and I was blown away by the power of her voice and the raw feel she had. She came to the studio and we had such an inspiring time. She was so open to ideas and so full of ideas. She came up with Eve of Destruction as a character, this goddess of destruction. It starts with a discordant voice, but as the track grows, it turns into celebration. The response to this foreboding, forbidding nature of the lyric is to cut loose, to come together, go out and find a friend and be with other like-minded people.â âBangoâ âAuroraâs response to playing her bits of music was so unexpected, brilliant, and inspiring. (For âBangoâ) Iâd play her something and sheâd come back and with angular words and ideas about unbalanced relationship dynamics and gods bringing thunder upon you. That's the excitement of collaborating with someoneâarriving at something that neither of you could have thought of on your own.â âNo Geographyâ âThe vocal sample is from a poem by Michael Brownstein, a â70s New York poet. They did this series called the Dial-A-Poem Poets where you could phone up and have poets read to you. That bit seems to be dealing with the idea that the physical geography between people is not a barrier to their connection. But, yeah, on a bigger scale itâs saying something about people being connected and how we all share something together. Itâs recognizing that we are codependent on each other, I suppose.â âGot to Keep Onâ âYouâve got the sparkly drums and the âGot to keep on making me highâ sample (from Peter Brownâs âDance with Meâ) and then it has this strange, off-kilter moment in the middle, which was a late night in the studio making everything as deranged as it can beâeverything feeding back and all the machines squealing. Itâs too much, basically. And when itâs too much, itâs just enough. And then it kind of resolves out and the bells come in. We love to have these really intense kind of psychedelic moments in our music and then it resolves into a joyâyouâve come through it, almost. Itâs something that feels very natural to us.â âGravity Dropsâ âThis is the first breathing moment of the record, really. Itâs got heavy beats but the music is moving around, and then youâve got very full-on d-d-d-drong bits. It all comes from setting up the studio to play it liveâwe set up lots of instruments and processors so we can play it as a kind of jam and then see where we get to. This is definitely made of trying to have those sections where it just freaks us out. And then we go, âYes, itâs freaked us out.ââ âThe Universe Sent Meâ âAurora really made this by coming up with these amazing images. Sonics-wise, there are a lot of ideas and a lot of movement. There are moments where it almost feels that whole thing has gone too far, the way it builds and then youâre back down. Itâs a rolling psychedelic journey, for want of a better word.â âWeâve Got to Tryâ âThis reminds me of records that we would play at (legendary London club night) The Social when we first started. Weâd play quite a lot of soul next to mad acid records. When we were making this track, it really reminded me of thatâthis idea that we were trying to reach for but never really realized in our own music. If this song had arrived in our record bags, weâd have gone, âWow! This is the sound of what we want to play.ââ âFree Yourselfâ âThis samples another Dial-A-Poem poet, Diane di Prima. We loved hearing that vocal in a nightclub. It was exciting to build a new context for that song, to have a new meaning. We played it live a lot in 2018, and that really fed into how the final thing turned out. Itâs also got that âWaaaaaaaaaaaaaahâ kind of noise. We just like instant delirium noises.â âMAHâ âOnce, we would probably have felt this was too big a sample to use (the line 'Iâm mad as hell and I ainât going to take it no more' from El Cocoâs âIâm Mad as Hellâ). But the excitement of playing it live and the release of the music after the vocal was an amazing moment. Even though we're not the kind of artists who will be very explicit in what they're feeling, the record was made in a time when, every day, you had constant national discussion and arguments going on. Even though weâre speaking through a sample, another sentiment from another time, when we made the song and put this whole feeling together, it was like, âYeah, that somehow relates to how I'm feeling today.ââ âCatch Me Iâm Fallingâ âOne of the sampled vocals is by Stephanie Dosenâwe worked with her on Further and the score for Hannaâfrom a Snowbird track, which is her and Simon Raymonde, who used to be in the Cocteau Twins. The other is from (Emmanuel Laskeyâs) âA Letter from Vietnam,â this very emotive song from 1968. Stephanieâs singing in a different wayâin a different room, in a different timeâbut the music we've written somehow brings these two disparate things together and makes new sense out of them. But it only makes sense if the thing at the end of it is something you want to listen to, something that moves you.â (c) EDITORSâ NOTES @ iTu
Releases from The Chemical Brothers
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No Reason
Year: 2023
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Skipping Like A Stone
Year: 2023
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For That Beautiful Feeling
Year: 2023
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Live Again (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
Year: 2023
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Live Again
Year: 2023
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No Reason (O’Flynn Remix)
Year: 2023
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No Reason (Ewan McVicar '1994' Remix)
Year: 2023
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All Of A Sudden
Year: 2023
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Dig Your Own Hole (25th Anniversary Edition)
Year: 2022
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It Doesn't Matter (Alt Mix / 28/9/96)
Year: 2022
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Cylinders (25/9/96)
Year: 2022
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I Love Tekno (Alt Mix / 4/10/96)
Year: 2022
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Elektrobank (Demo / 3/6/96)
Year: 2022
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The Darkness That You Fear
Year: 2021
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The Darkness That You Fear
Year: 2021
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The Darkness That You Fear (The Blessed Madonna Remix)
Year: 2021
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The Darkness That You Fear (HAAi Remix)
Year: 2021
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MAH
Year: 2019
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MAH
Year: 2019
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Got To Keep On
Year: 2019
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We’ve Got To Try
Year: 2019
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Believe
Year: 2019
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Get Yourself High
Year: 2019
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Come With Us / The Test
Year: 2019
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Music Response
Year: 2019
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Surrender (20th Anniversary Edition)
Year: 2019
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Elektrobank
Year: 2019
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Life Is Sweet
Year: 2019
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Out Of Control (21 Minutes Of Madness Mix / The Secret Psychedelic Mix)
Year: 2019
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Swoon
Year: 2019
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Leave Home
Year: 2019
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Out Of Control (The Avalanches Surrender To Love Mix)
Year: 2019
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Eve Of Destruction (KOKOKO! Remix)
Year: 2019
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Eve Of Dubstruction
Year: 2019
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Got To Keep On (Midland Remix)
Year: 2019
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Got To Keep On (Riton Remix)
Year: 2019
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WGTT15000BPM F1 NEEEUM MIX
Year: 2019
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Wide Open
Year: 2019
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Sometimes I Feel So Deserted
Year: 2019
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Go
Year: 2019
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Another World
Year: 2019
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Midnight Madness
Year: 2019
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The Salmon Dance
Year: 2019
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Battle Scars (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Re-Animation)
Year: 2019
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The Boxer
Year: 2019
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Do It Again
Year: 2019
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The Golden Path
Year: 2019
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Out Of Control
Year: 2019
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Hey Boy Hey Girl (Kink Extended Remix)
Year: 2019
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Hey Boy Hey Girl (The Secret Psychedelic Mix)
Year: 2019
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Let Forever Be
Year: 2019
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Hey Boy Hey Girl
Year: 2019
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Block Rockin’ Beats
Year: 2019
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Free Yourself (Paranoid London Remix)
Year: 2018
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Free Yourself
Year: 2018
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I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain
Year: 2018
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Galvanize
Year: 2018
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Setting Sun
Year: 2017
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Where Do I Begin
Year: 2017
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Born In The Echoes
Year: 2015
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Born In The Echoes (Deluxe Edition)
Year: 2015
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Under Neon Lights
Year: 2015
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This Is Not A Game
Year: 2014
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This Is Not A Game (From The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1)
Year: 2014
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Don't Think
Year: 2012
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Hanna (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Year: 2011
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Further
Year: 2010
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Brotherhood
Year: 2008
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We Are The Night
Year: 2007
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B-Sides - Vol. 1
Year: 2007
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The Private Psychedelic Reel
Year: 2007
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Push The Button
Year: 2005
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Live 05
Year: 2005
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Loops Of Fury
Year: 2004
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Come With Us (xdustcd5, 7243 8 11682 2 6)
Year: 2002
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Come With Us
Year: 2002
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Star Guitar
Year: 2002
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AmericanEP
Year: 2002
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It Began In Afrika
Year: 2001
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Surrender
Year: 1999
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Past Talk
Year: 1999
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Dig Your Own Hole
Year: 1997
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Exit Planet Dust
Year: 1995
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Hotstepper
by Trinix
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Hver gang vi møtes 2024
by Matoma & Hver gang vi møtes
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Constellations (Expanded)
by Jazzy
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Nobody Else
by XEER & HRMV
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Kiss
by Josh Dorey
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Changes
by Alex Hobson
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Promise Me
by Jeko
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Nossos Dias
by Alok & Zeeba
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How Does It Feel
by Jerro & Kasbo
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Forgive Me (Live) / A Moment Apart (Live)
by ODESZA
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For Life (feat. Nile Rodgers)
by Kygo & Zak Abel & Nile Rodgers
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Wadibusa (feat. OHP Sage, Pcee, & Djy Biza)
by Uncle Waffles & Royal Musiq & OHP SAGE & Pcee & Djy Biza