Galvanize is a highlight song, but falls short of time. Why? Its nothing like they've ever done before, but unfortunately following the footsteps of Timbaland and Scott Storch, the middle-eastern flute is quickly shadowed by mainstream music of today. Its not the first time the brothers have used a rapper to depict their message from a song (Get Yourself High featuring K-OS is a prime example), but Galvanize stands out among the other songs. Galvanize - The moment you "Push The Button", you are greated with a middle-eastern pump-psychedelic tune, followed by the vocal talents of rapper Q-Tip. Push The Button is something they want you to do, but exactly WHICH button? Having competition against bands like The Prodigy and The Crystal Method, the Brothers have worked out a way to get back at the world with an album as groundbreaking as their live performances. Push The Button is back with another one of those block rockin' beats from the masterful Brothers themselves. Where do I start? Where do I begin? The latest installment in a long line of electronic duo funk comes another eye-opener. Oh well, we had fun while it lasted, but this party’s over.Review Summary: Push The Button offers something slightly different. I guess this means that Big Beat’s legacy is heading to towards extinction. Fatboy Slim, is having the same problem as his album Palookaville was also a major league flop. It seems like their partner in crime, Norman Cook a.k.a. The Chemical Brothers have to go back to the drawing board or just disconnect their decks and maybe give it up for a while. It’s just that the only people making waves in the dance music scene are artists like !!!. Could it be that I’m just getting old? Nah. Just like his role in R.E.M.’s “The Outsiders,” Tip’s message is political as he raps “ World/my finger is on the button…the time has come to Galvanize!” It’s a calling to arms to everyone in all the musical nations to stand up and make noise to fight the powers that be.īut sadly that is it, just one redeeming song on this drawn out album that should have been dubbed Press the Pause Button. Even with the cool funky rhythms that still seem to echo “Hey Boy, Hey Girl” from Surrender, the only reason this song is a highlight is the Tip. There is one shining spot on this long drawn out disappointment of a record and that’s the Q-Tip fronted single “Galvanize.” The only reason this song survives is because of the lyrical stylings of Q-Tip. If this is the music they are trying to push… give me a roll of E, some Chicago Deep House white label music and a Vicks pacifier and that would do it for me. All I know is that I won’t be going to some all night party in the desert to see these guys anytime soon. Even Tim Burgess’s appearance can’t save “The Boxer.” It tries to recycle a hip ’70s funk like vibe but it just goes round and round and round-all hype with no musical connections at all. It’s quite sad, kind of like those aging hippie rock tours that some Woodstock parents would go to in the eighties. “Believe” is a new song that drags and drags - have these guys ever heard of an edit? It sounds like an American blockbuster with beats, lots o’ noise and says nothing at all. It’s bad enough that the Chemical Bros, ten years later, are trying to recycle old rhythms with no effect what so ever. The boys seem stuck in the past to be like a bunch of post modern dinosaurs trying to bring up the noise to a dying rave party scene for the 90’s Jurassic Park generation. What Tom and Ed don’t realize is their scene is so over that we’re now using our glow sticks to help find our lost car keys in a parking lot in the dark. They had their musical compadres like Beth Orton, Noel Gallagher, Tim Burgess, Hope Sandoval, Bernard Sumner and Richard Ashcroft lifting their hyper-spaced out rhythms with memorable lyrics in such classic songs as “Where Do I Begin,” “Setting Sun” and “Out of Control.” I remember songs on Exit Planet Dust and Dig Your Own Hole and even on Surrender, on which the Brothers were working it out, changing the landscape of music with their addictive block rockin’ beats. It doesn’t seem like so long ago that Los Hermanos Quimicos, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, were the innovators of the self proclaimed Big Beat scene.
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