Music Review

Brothers Gonna Work It Out

EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: The Chemical Brothers; Genre: Electronic

Rather than concoct an actual follow-up to Dig Your Own Hole, The Chemical Brothers dip back into their DJ roots — just in time for the trend toward officially sanctioned mix tapes by everyone from Funkmaster Flex to underground DJs like Carl Cox. Brothers Gonna Work It Out, the Chemicals' second DJ disc, assembles more than an hour of nonstop, seamlessly stitched-together snippets of old R&B, disco clap tracks, Latin beats, and random sound bites. Alternately fun and monotonous, it's little more than the world's grooviest jogging tape. B

Originally posted Sep 25, 1998 Published in issue #451 Sep 25, 1998 Order article reprints
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