Born In The Echoes CD

Some critics have complained that the Chemical Brothers' Born In The Echoes - their first studio album in five years - is not distinctive enough from their previous work. Arguably, this is actually the album's greatest strength. Sure, it sounds like it was cut from the same cloth as, say, 1999's Surrender or 2001's Come With Us, but is that such a bad thing? The beats are bold, the electronics trippy, the acid lines intense, and the rock influences wild and unwieldy. Like those sets, there are plenty of guest vocalists - Q-Tip and Beck being the most notable stars - and moments that recall their greatest work (see the "Let Forever Be" style dancefloor psychedelia of "I'll See You There").

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