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Date: September 22, 1998
Label:
ASTRALWERKS
Genre: ROCK
Category: Rock/Pop
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Rolling Stone
The Chemicals use the mix-tape format to usher their music in a new direction that's less constricted by the four-on-the-floor big-beat genre they helped invent. On the fantastic Brothers Gonna Work It Out, they cede their cartoon-beat franchise to recent popularizers like Propellerheads. Instead, they offer a wicked tapestry of fresh sounds, boomeranging grooves and aggressive fuzz. Like Beastie Boys, the Chemicals have top-shelf retro-futurist taste, knowing when to bring on records by Seventies obscurities like the Jimmy Castor Bunch or Willie Hutch, from whose old Motown track the album gets its name. The Chemicals' music descends like a filmy rain of a zillion fine, tiny pieces of combined and recombined beats, phrases ("It's time to get down"; "Don't stop the rock") and repeating riffs. Their conservationist streak extends beyond out-of-print vinyl: They revel in Dubtribe's demand "I want my planet back," on "Mother Earth." Like Flex, who'll throw on the occasional old-school nugget, the Chemicals sometimes get sentimental, remixing traditional Brit rockers like Manic Street Preachers. But with an album like this, the Chemical Brothers are showing that they know the big secret about "the future": It's occurring right now. (RS 794)
JAMES HUNTER
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