No Geography
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No Geography
No Geography is the ninth studio album by English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers, released on 12 April 2019 by Virgin EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Astralwerks in the United States. It is the duo's first album in four years. The album features vocals by Aurora and Japanese rapper Nene. Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
Blending psychedelic sensory overload with riotous club bangers, the shape-shifting electronic duo’s ninth album is their most entertaining in years.
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Consequence of Song
The Big Beat innovators deliver mercurial, sprawling, and thrilling rave music.
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Resident Advisor
Overall, though, No Geography pushes right up to the line but doesn't cross it. There is definitely a little nostalgia for the Chemical Brothers' past about the track, but it illustrates how the duo seem to have tapped into something from their past and used it to move forwards. At this stage in their career that's impressive.
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Independent
With their ninth album, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have mined their own classic sounds and melded them with new ones. The Chemical Brothers have lost none of their dance verve. Their mega beats endure on No Geography, but this is also a stupendously successful splicing of past and present.
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Spill Magazine
After three decades The Chemical Brothers seem to have become very secure with their own history. They are no longer trying to be at the forefront of a movement, but merely concentrating on making solid, complete albums. No Geography plays like an album, and should be listened to as such. I am quite confident many of the tracks will be remixed for clubs, but as an album No Geography holds together lyrically and musically.
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Clash
Three decades after forming, hitting the reset button has unleashed this iconic duo afresh, demonstrating an insatiable ability to forge the perfect dance track, whatever the era. Go get your rave on.
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Music OMH
No Geography is a great Chemicals album, for it balances the hedonistic big numbers with sentiments of real substance, fighting its corner with vigour in the face of chaos.
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Irish Times
It’s not quite their most memorable work, but there’s just enough here to sate fans and entice the apathetic on to the dancefloor.
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Slant
These songs, like the album as a whole, display elements of all stages of the duo’s career yet retain the same playful inspiration found in their best work.
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The Young Folks
Aimless and distracted, if very well mixed, their latest album is the sound of a further falling from greatness.
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Under the Radar
It has been four years since the last Chemical Brothers album, Born in the Echoes, which is plenty of time for a whole music scene to change; Simons and Rowlands went for perfection, and set a mark with No Geography.
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Music Feed
Somehow, The Chemical Brothers have delivered a cerebral dance record without being conceptual or even pretentious. No Geography surely has a political angle, but it’s indirect – much less didactic. In spirit, No Geography is transcendental rather than transgressive. The Chemicals aren’t self-consciously ‘innovating’. If they’ve scoped out James Blake, it isn’t obvious. But The Chemical Brothers have never indulged in cynical opportunism to remain trendy. They keep moving, steadily resisting stasis.
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Hot Press
Overloaded with vastly different sounds, The Chemical Brothers’ latest is a messy and abrasive LP. No Geography is also full of passion and often exhilarating. It isn’t a perfect record, but it’s a record for our times nonetheless.
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