Studio album no. 912 April 2019Atomic number 50
No Geography
Ground #66C2E6Ink 1 #2A2423Ink 2 #504A39Accent #504A39Plate colours (taken from the artwork)
Contrast body 10.4:1 heading 7.6:1
Pulse 120 BPM (provisional, not yet measured)
Listen
The video embedded on the official site1 Open on YouTube
Record
- Released
- 12 April 20193
- Label
- Virgin EMI3
- Formats
- CD, LP, download3
- Peak positions
- UK4AUS17AUT26BEL9FRA48IRL21NLD26NZ—SWI10US—3
- Notes
- Won Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards7
- Notes
- Made using a "1997 corner" of the samplers from their first two albums; recorded 2016–2019 with engineer Steve Dub Jones86
- Singles from the album
- Free Yourself, MAH, Got to Keep On, We've Got to Try, Eve of Destruction3
- Videos for album tracks
- Eve of Destruction (featuring Aurora): Adam Smith, Marcus Lyall3
Tracklist
- 1Eve of Destruction2
- 2Bango2
- 3No Geography2
- 4Got to Keep On2
- 5Gravity Drops2
- 6The Universe Sent Me2
- 7We've Got to Try2
- 8Free Yourself2
- 9MAH2
- 10Catch Me I'm Falling2
Music
Not measured for whole albums; see each track page.
Technology
Context
Testimony
“I set up a corner of my studio that was 'The 1997 Corner'”
Reviews
“No Geography is also not their strongest or most memorable work to date”
“another leap forward for the pair”
View (DJ Naoyaman)
An album made on kit that had spent twenty years in the attic.
Released on 12 April 2019, it reached No. 4 in the UK3 and won Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 62nd Grammy Awards.7
Tom has described setting up a "1997 corner" in his studio, with the samplers from their first two albums.8 That equipment had sat in his attic for some twenty years.11 Ed says the E-MU sampler has a crunch of its own.12
The guests are Aurora from Norway and the Japanese rapper Nene. On the opener, "Eve of Destruction", Nene raps in Japanese, and in the video the two play heroes out of a Japanese tokusatsu show.51314
The voice in the title track comes from a poem by Michael Brownstein, one of the Dial-A-Poem poets of 1970s New York.6
I call it the attic kit. Things they never threw away, switched back on twenty years later.
Translated from the Japanese original.
Afterwards
Own
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- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Eve of Destruction (video)”
- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: No Geography (release page)”
- Wikipedia, “The Chemical Brothers discography”
- SPIN, “AURORA, Chemical Brothers' Rowlands Form New Group”
- The Quietus, “The Chemical Brothers – No Geography”
- Billboard, “The Chemical Brothers Break Down No Geography Track by Track”
- Billboard, “The Chemical Brothers Win Grammys for the Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Dance Recording”
- Apple Music, “No Geography (album notes)”
- AllMusic, “AllMusic: No Geography review”
- NME, “NME: No Geography review”
- JB Hi-Fi, “The Chemical Brothers – No Geography”
- DUMMY, “The Chemical Brothers: No Geography interview”
- Release Magazine, “Chemical Brothers – No Geography”
- Numéro, “The Chemical Brothers s’invite chez les Power Rangers”