From Amazon.com: To follow up their bombastic 1995 album Exit Planet Dust, the Chemical Brothers fine-tuned their bombastic beats and produced a rock-solid pop album (pun intended). Dig Your Own Hole finds the common ground between rock & roll and techno, both in spirit and substance. Singles like "Block Rockin' Beats," "Elektrobank," and "Setting Sun" (featuring vocals by Oasis's Noel Gallagher) may lack the big hair and pomposity of rock music, but they make up for it in spades, with sampled and real guitars battling for space with sirens and distorted hip-hop drums. The album reeks of pure enthusiasm and energy, evoking a crowd-pleasing exuberance that makes Dig Your Own Hole a Back in Black for the late 1990s. Pure stadium techno. --Matthew Corwine
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Rating: - Ten years on, still a massive album
Way back when, this was one of the defining big beat albums. Massive percussion, explosions etc underneath layers of almost discordant samples and loops. It broke the Brothers into the mainstream with Block Rockin Beats leading the way on the radio, and Setting Sun ticking the celebrity vocals box.
Ten years on, this remains a cracking album. The tracks merge into one soundtrack, which veers between the plaintive Where Do I Begin to the real hardcore mid section of the album. Sometimes ... Read More
Rating: - So near....
Here's my review of 'Dig Your Own Hole':
1. Block Rockin' Beats: 9/10- pure quality breakbeat funk 2. Dig Your Own Hole: 10/10- one of the phattest tunes ever 3. Elektrobank: 7/10- well produced, but a bit too much in the mix I'd say 4. Piku: 7.5/10- funky little number, nothing special 5. Setting Sun: 9/10- big, funky and fresh, a good party tune 6. It Doesn't Matter: 4.5/10- well produced, uninspired techno 7. Don't Stop The Rock: 5.5- flashes of a real good ... Read More
Rating: - Superlative
'Dig Your Own Hole' is a masterpiece, even better than 'Exit Planet Dust'. It shows that The Chemical Brothers back catalogue can rival that of Underworld. The tracks aren't discrete, the music is continuous -- a wild gush of subgenreless dance music. Caveat: This must not be listened to through headphones. I dismissed it as mere noise the first time I played it because the headphones compressed it. It deserves the best speakers possible. You have to allow all the different elements of the song to express ... Read More
Rating: - Quite simply the best album dance music has produced
This album is, quite rightly, one of the most hyped albums of recent years. From the pounding, energetic Block rockin' beats to the sublime flow of Private psychedelic reel this album has it all. Never bettered by the Chemicals themselves nor any of their contemporaries it has still not aged and I thoroughly believe I will still be listening to this album when I'm an old man. The album does not have any moments in it when you are bored or waiting for the next track to start, the sign of any great album. Read More
Rating: - great stuff
well i think most has been said about this album by now, all i want to say is that 'private...' is the best songs theyve every done its a great collaberation between tom and ed and jonothon donahue (mercy rev singer) and boy does JD's influence show on this track its so similar to the mercury revs work youd think you were back at home listenin to 'see you on the other side', its brilliant, as for the rest of the albuym the best collection of 'Phat' beats you'll ever hear!! i mean this albumns canny old now but i ... Read More
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