The Chemical Brothers make electronic music for a rock audience that isn't fully 'dance literate', which is why their immense success is a little confusing to many coming at their sound from the dance perspective.
They fuse genres with considerable success and never fail to make the noisiest, punkiest, nose-bleedingly intense sounds to fall outside of the techno category.
This latest offering sounds like the result of an experiment involving children, amphetamines and a bank of Casio keyboards.
They do calm down a little after they've got the mad thrash of the first three tracks out of the way.
That said though, it's the mad thrash that impresses most, especially the intensely rockin' 'Under The Influence' which takes the beats from Paperclip People's 'Throw' and turns them into the most lashing track on the album.
'Let Forever Be' - the Noel Gallagher vehicle and next single - is nothing spectacular; 'Got Glint?' is a nice homage to early house sounds - like Mr Fingers with an acid injection; 'OutOf Control' is Ultravox and Human League meets Prodigy on an obscene drug binge - and so it goes on.
It's pretty good stuff but it seems a little unjust that this one album will sell more than the entire Underground Resistance back catalogue put together.
