Single10 September 2007Atomic number 32
The Salmon Dance
Ground #B66D5EInk 1 #C49084Ink 2 #B67062Accent #B66D5DPlate colours (taken from the artwork)
Contrast body 5.3:1 heading 5.3:1 Ink 1 falls short of 3:1, so the heading uses the text colour
Pulse 130 BPM (measured)
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The video embedded on the official site1 Open on YouTube
Record
- Released
- 10 September 20073
- UK peak
- No. 274
- Certifications
- ARIA: Gold; RMNZ: Gold4
- Video
- Dom and Nic4
Tracklist
Music
- BPM
- 130 BPM
- Key
- C#m (12A)
Technology
Context
Testimony
View (DJ Naoyaman)
A rap conversation with a salmon.
Released on 10 September 2007, it has the Pharcyde's Fatlip trading lines with a salmon called Sammy.356 It reached No. 27 in the UK but No. 10 in New Zealand, and went gold in Australia and New Zealand. Dom and Nic made the video.4
PopMatters called it one of the most fun tracks of the year, and noted that it sits exactly halfway through the album.6
At the centre of a Grammy-winning album, a song about a salmon. I think of that kind of slack as the album taking a breath.
Translated from the Japanese original.
Afterwards
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- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: The Salmon Dance (video)”
- The Chemical Brothers, “Official site: The Salmon Dance (release page)”
- Wikipedia, “We Are the Night (album)”
- Wikipedia, “The Chemical Brothers discography”
- Exclaim!, “The Chemical Brothers – We Are The Night”
- PopMatters, “The Chemical Brothers: We Are the Night”