The Chemical Brothers, “For That Beautiful Feeling.”

At a time when electronic dance music’s many forms lead the way both in innovation and popularity, The Chemical Brothers continue to sustain their relevancy and keep their music at the top of their game, 30 years after breaking out in England. That’s true once again on their 10th studio album, For That Beautiful Feeling.

The album, their first since since 2019’s No Geography, feels like one sustained adrenaline rush or fever dream, with just a few moments to catch your breath between songs. Like a live set, the album’s songs generally flow from one to the next, with nary an ebb.

By the crunchy synth runs and breakdowns of “Goodbye,” which keeps one foot in the ’90s (even recalling Moby’s Play with its sampled vocals) and another in the here and now, listeners may feel lost in the moment. It’s just the fourth song of the album, but your heart should be soundly racing.

The album kicks off with the vaguely menacing “Intro,” which is anything other than segue filler with its digitized vocals of French psych-pop artist Halo Maud—even at just 69 seconds long—and it quickly blends into the driving, four-to-the-floor beat of “Live Again.” Maud provides smooth, simple vocals (“We will live again”) that contrast the hard and choppy production. She also makes an appearance on the heavenly title track, which concludes the album. Even though she performs the same sort of vocal and again sings the name of the song, her vocals serve a completely different purpose here.

“Yeah! We can go there!/ What a beautiful feeling,” she intones as the melody swells and the bass gathers steam before dropping into a haze, and the build starts all over again. The Chemical Brothers use her vocals to tie the end of the album back to its beginning.

“No Reason,” which sets the stage for “Goodbye,” kicks off as an 8-bit video game tune before an electronic drumline and funky bass riffage change its feel completely. The song sounds both modern and like a lost jock jam.

Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons pump the brakes on the mid-tempo “Fountains,” on which the guitars sound like Nile Rodgers’ chucking style, over psychedelic synth lines. Everything is briefly scrambled into a digital stew before the melody resurfaces, following the beat drop in the form of a ’70s-inspired funk tune.

The aggressive “Magic Wand” and “The Weight” have rhythm sections that sound a bit like “Block Rockin’ Beats,” but the former is paired with siren-like yelps and soulful vocal samples, and the latter is way more psychedelic with distorted vocals and elongated, Daniel-Lanois-esque bleeps and blasts.

For That Beautiful Feeling‘s second peak arrives with the downright poppy “Skipping Like A Stone,” the Chemical Brothers’ second collaboration with Beck since 2015’s “Wide Open.” Once the beat drops and the song takes on a bass-laden dance personality, it gets dreamier with warbling melody and phase-shifted metallic sounds. Beck’s vocals give it a dreamlike quality.

The following tune, “The Darkness That You Fear” (coined the “Harvest Mix” on the album), is like the album’s afterparty. Rather than slowing down the tempo, it cools the temperature just enough with breezy melody, hand drumming and some brass-instrument-like sounds to give you the energy to press on. The duo’s syncopated rhythms and blistering breakbeats continue on the glitchy “Feels Like I’m Dreaming.” Only on the title track do they bring the party to a close. This album clearly shows the Chemical Brothers aren’t ready to step down from their pedestal as the kings of electronica just yet.

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