The Chemical Brothers have announced their 10th album, For That Beautiful Feeling, which will be out September 8 via Republic Records. The album features appearances from Beck and Halo Maud, and you can check out the tracklist and artwork below.
The current single is the excellent “Live Again,” featuring Halo Maud, and they’ve just released the video for it which was directed by longtime collaborators Dom & Nic, who made the videos for “Setting Sun,” Believe,” “Hey Boy, Hey Girl” and more. For it they’ve created a dazzling video, made almost in a single take and featuring a mesmerizing performance by dancer Josipa Kukor.
“Working with The Chemical Brothers is a dream for any video director,” say Dom & Nic. “We’re really lucky to be still making films together after quite a few years. The Chems just keep smashing it with great tracks that demand videos that live up to the music and hopefully add something extra to the whole experience. ‘Live Again’ is our tenth collaboration… the woozy, wonky analog sounds and the dream like lyric suggested a hallucinogenic visual journey following a character caught in a loop of death and rebirth. The idea inspired us to use the new Arri XR virtual production stage and its cutting edge technology in a way that had never previously been done. This is an idea that could not really have been achieved with traditional filmmaking techniques. We created virtual CGI worlds and used long unbroken camera takes, without edits, moving between those different worlds seamlessly with our hero character. Making and editing the video, we were showered with the generosity of such a strong and huge team of immensely talented companies and individuals that helped us to make this film happen because they love working with The Chemical Brothers. Without their time, talents and generosity a film like this could never make it out of heads and onto a screen.”
Watch the video below.
The Chemical Brothers (Tom Rowlands & Ed Simmons) are also releasing a book, Paused in Cosmic Reflection, that will be out October 26. It tells their 30-year story via “new interviews with the band as well as many of their friends and collaborators from the past three decades, including Noel Gallagher, Aurora, Wayne Coyne, Beth Orton, Beck, Michel Gondry and many more.” You can preorder that here.
For That Beautiful Feeling:
1. Intro
2. Live Again (feat. Halo Maud)
3. No Reason
4. Goodbye
5. Fountains
6. Magic Wand
7. The Weight
8. Skipping Like A Stone (feat. Beck)
9. The Darkness That You Fear (Harvest Mix)
10. Feels Like I’m Dreaming
11. For That Beautiful Feeling (feat. Halo Maud)
