Vivid sixth album from dependable dance duo.  Full text...

With their reputations at stake, the Chems have conjured their most brilliant work since 1999's Surrender. Losing their edge? Not a bit of it.   Full text...

The Chemical Brothers remain just about the only copper-bottomed prospect remaining from the Nineties big-beat heyday, and We Are the Night shows how much this is just down to taste and hard work.   Full text...

Big-beat believers still get high on their own supply.  Full text...

The Brothers, and chums, continue to work it out on delightful sixth album of psychedelia and electronica.  Full text...

There seemed to be a certain consensus forming upon the release of the Chemical Brothers' last album that Ed Simons and Tom Rowlands were past it, destined to recycle the same album over and over again.  Full text...

The sixth album from the Chemical Brothers is a mixed affair that contains as many fabulous highs as it does crushing lows.  Full text...

'All Rights Reversed', the Chems' collaboration with Klaxons, saves 'We Are The Night' from sounding like it's still stuck in the mid-'90s and with Willy Mason and Midlake cropping up, Tom and Ed have again found just enough cool mates to save them from a general feeling of naffness.   Full text...

While there is enough in the way of creativity here to dispel any suggestions that Rowlands and Simons have composed We Are The Night with all cylinders set to auto-pilot, there nevertheless lingers a sour aftertaste come its climax, the sort that was never experienced for the duo’s first three LPs but has become commonplace since.  Full text...

This shining aberration notwithstanding, the most successful duo in dance music works best as a threesome. If they just invited a few more friends over next time they could give you something to use in your life without compromising the requirements of the dancefloor.  Full text...

On We Are the Night, the Chemical Brothers have switched from integrators to imitators: Where 1999's Surrender opened with "Music: Response", expertly streamlining the cutting-edge electro-funk of early Timbaland, "Do It Again" sounds like a public domain version of a FutureSex/LoveSounds beat, with perky synths and an aloof radio-dance churn gutlessly approximating the elements that make those tracks work.  Full text...