Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night

Ask any doctor what the most effective anti-depressant is and they will stick you on some addictive, brain-numbing drug that will temporarily diminish the pain. Ask the men in white in a decade and the answer will be “go get yourself a copy of the latest Chemical Brothers album”.

Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have been making audible Prozac for over twelve years now and it just keeps getting stronger and stronger. Whether you’re a raver, rocker, ragamuffin or renaissance boffin, chances are you’ve got at least one of the Chems’ albums in your record collection. Exploding onto the scene with their debut album, ‘Exit Planet Dust’, back when Brit-Pop was at its all-conquering zenith, the duo have constantly wowed and dumbfounded engineers with their continual ability to come up with an array of bleeps, beats, collaborations and stellar live shows deserving of knighthoods. ‘We Are The Night’ is quite possibly their best work to date. Their collaborations are what we all wait patiently for and it’s no surprise to see some glowstick comradeship, with Klaxons assisting on the massive ‘All Rights Reserved’. Fellow fan of the ‘horse’, Ali Love appears on the stupendously infectious ‘Do It Again’, whilst Pharcyde’s ‘Fat Lip’ raps his way through the comical ‘The Salmon Dance’ - a track that will no doubt have us all trying to shake our bodies “like a salmon floating up stream”. We’ve already tried it and it’s definitely the new caterpillar.