Vinyl Record
The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us
The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us on 2LP vinyl. A 2002 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
2LP · 2002
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2002 2LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Come With Us is The Chemical Brothers in 2002, pushing beyond the 1990s big-beat explosion while still sounding determined to drag the crowd into the next room. After Surrender had broadened their melodic and psychedelic reach, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons returned with an album that starts as a command: Come With Us, then It Began in Afrika, then Galaxy Bounce, each track tightening the sense of forward motion. The centrepiece is Star Guitar, one of the duo's most graceful singles, where repetition becomes travel and Michel Gondry's video helped fuse train-window rhythm with electronic structure in the public imagination. Later, My Elastic Eye, Denmark and The Test widen the album into odd textures, guest vocals and end-of-night release. Come With Us is not as culturally seismic as Dig Your Own Hole, but it is the sound of a major electronic act refusing to coast after the first wave of crossover hype. It is restless, bright, muscular and still built for bodies in motion.
Come With Us matters because it shows The Chemical Brothers negotiating the early-2000s afterlife of big beat without surrendering their sense of scale. Star Guitar alone gives the album lasting importance, while It Began in Afrika keeps the duo's club pressure intact.
For collectors, Come With Us is the key 2002 chapter between Surrender and the later Push the Button era. The appeal is the combination of Star Guitar's melodic elegance, It Began in Afrika's rhythmic force and The Test's expansive closing mood.
Early-2000s electronic dance with breakbeat force, psychedelic synths, bright melodic loops, club pressure, guest-vocal drama, train-motion repetition and widescreen festival momentum.
Recommended for: Collectors tracing The Chemical Brothers after Surrender; Listeners who want Star Guitar in its album context; Fans of breakbeat electronics with melody, scale and kinetic polish.
When was Come With Us released? Come With Us was released in 2002 as The Chemical Brothers' fourth studio album. Which song is most associated with Come With Us? Star Guitar is the album's most enduring single, with It Began in Afrika also central to its club identity. Where does Come With Us fit in the Chemical Brothers catalogue? It follows Surrender and captures the duo adapting their 1990s breakthrough language for the early 2000s.