From the outside, The Chemical Brothers have never really
appeared to be an act that anyone associates with the concept of “evolutionary
development,” but that is really the fault of short-sighted critics who simply
assume that the group’s influence and growth is limited because the music first
gained life on a series of dance floors.
Such rigid thinking is foolish, really; in fact, The
Chemical Brothers have been able to not only push their music in unprecedented
stylistic directions since first appearing in 1993, they’ve won fans in every
quadrant of musical spectrum as they’ve done it. Over the last twenty-four
years, the group has made believers and outspoken proponents of musicians that
no one assumed would have taken notice under normal circumstances, as well as
an equally disparate selection of supporters from all around the world. Simply
said, as of this writing, The Chemical Brothers are a fantastic, genre-less
institution.
Just how The Chemical Brothers managed to build the bridge
upon which they’d cross over into the plains of pop stardom is detailed on
their debut, Exit Planet Dust. The new vinyl reissue album both reiterates and
renews its musical vision perfectly; the sound is lush and meticulously
restored on the reissue, and really points out how obvious the crossover
potential was in 1995 as well as how ground breaking the music continues to
feel, twenty-four years later.