Further

iTunes Review

There was once a time when the Chemical Brothers were considered part of a freaky new dimension in music. Now, they sound like grizzled veterans turning up the electronics with maximum force in a world that has acclimated to their whims. Such is the brilliance of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. “Another World” doesn’t sound like a strange, bizarre galaxy but a welcoming destination that one arrives at through meditational space travel. The opening synths lift heavenward, swerving around the corners until, a little bit more than a minute in, the sound switches up into a bouncy synth riff parked on the moon-surfaced playground. The 12-minute “Escape Velocity” builds at its pace to a stuttering climax of furious beats and psychedelic waves of sound. Its intensity is the result of a thousand scrambling tones coalescing into a formative whole with more than a nod towards the Who’s “Baba O’Riley.” “Horse Power” drives up the pressure for nearly six hypnotic minutes. “Swoon” does as its title implies. For first-rate electronic trips to the edge of the world, start here and hang on.