The Chemical Brothers - Sometimes I Feel So Deserted

There’s no way to put it more eloquently; The Chemical Brothers’ return is absolutely mullered off its face. Compared with the strain of insanity that colours the duo’s earlier material - take spoken-word weird-fest ‘The Salmon Dance’ and the Najat Aatabou-sampling banger ‘Galvanise’ as prime examples - ‘Sometimes I Feel So Deserted’ chases a far sweatier, floor-stomping high, intensively focused around a relentless, stomping beat.

If their first preview is anything to go by, it looks like The Chemical Brothers are busy drawing on the massive aesthetics of their 90s classic records ‘Exit Planet Dust’, and ‘Dig Your Own Hole,’ for their next album ‘Born In The Echoes’. The spacey, cavernous all-coddling enormity of ‘Sometimes I Feel So Deserted’ might be the last one standing on the dancefloor, but it needs no accompaniment. Once again Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons are back.