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Single21 August 2023Atomic number 56

Skipping Like a Stone

Skipping Like a Stone artwork
Artwork (quoted for review and commentary)2

Ground #ACAEABInk 1 #0E1E3BInk 2 #0053CBAccent #0053CBPlate colours (taken from the artwork)

Contrast body 9.4:1 heading 7.4:1

Pulse 128 BPM (measured)

Listen

The video embedded on the official site1 Open on YouTube

Record

Released
21 August 20233
UK peak
Did not chart1
Featuring
Beck1

Tracklist

  1. 1Skipping Like A Stone (featuring Beck)2

Music

BPM
128 BPM
Key
Gm (6A)

Technology

Context

Testimony

“It's like they have one foot in multiple decades at the same time”

Beck. Quoted in the label's announcement3

View (DJ Naoyaman)

The video features someone introduced as the world's greatest stone skipper.

Released on 21 August 2023, it is their second song with Beck, after "Wide Open" in 2015. The video is by the New York directors Pensacola and stars Kurt Steiner.3

Beck said the two seem to have one foot in several decades at once. The same announcement quotes The Times, which said that after thirty years they "staunchly refuse to become a heritage act".3

A skipped stone bounces again and again and travels far before it sinks. I read Beck's "one foot in several decades" as that kind of bouncing.

Translated from the Japanese original.

Afterwards

Own

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  1. Wikipedia, “The Chemical Brothers discography”
  2. The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: Skipping Like a Stone (release page)”
  3. Universal Music Canada, “The Chemical Brothers release "Skipping Like A Stone" (featuring Beck)”