Come with Us | ||||
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Studio album by The Chemical Brothers | ||||
Released | 28 January 2002 | |||
Recorded | 2000–01 | |||
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Length | 54:49 | |||
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Producer | The Chemical Brothers | |||
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Singles from Come with Us | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 72/100 |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Alternative Press | 7/10 |
Entertainment Weekly | B |
Pitchfork | 6.2/10 |
PopMatters | 8/10 |
Q | |
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Spin | 9/10 |
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Come with Us is the fourth studio album by English big beat duo The Chemical Brothers, released in January 2002 by record labels Virgin and Freestyle Dust in the UK and Astralwerks and Ultra in the US. It features Richard Ashcroft (ex. The Verve) and Beth Orton as guest vocalists.
The album debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the BPI on 1 February 2002.
The band's second and third albums Dig Your Own Hole and Surrender brought the band international fame. The band had a worldwide tour for Surrender beginning in 1999, continuing until summer 2000 when they played festivals including legendary performances at Glastonbury Festival and Creamfields.
Following the festivals, the band created a new track, premiered in December 2000 when the band supported U2. Tom Rowlands seemed to initially have mixed feelings about the track, saying it had "quite a lot of percussion, big, sweeping sort of stuff. Live conga playing, quite spaced out. It's like Body & Soul, but really, really hard and twisted, it's like high-impact, full-on, but with more organic sounds, and quite intense, without the good vibe." The track was popular with fans, however, and eventually was released as the white label release "Electronic Battle Weapon 5" in June 2001. In the release's dawn, the duo had begun recording a new album, and the track had proved basis for the band's recording of the album.
The album name itself was a reference to the phrase used by Americans while using an Upper Midwest dialect. Strangely enough, it was chosen as the title of the album even though the band is British and the phrase itself "(come) with" is not typically used in this way in using Standard English and its offspring dialects.