song choice seems obvious after smoking some gunge...

blunts & robots

It's only been a few weeks and yet this CD is already not a mainstay in my collection. I hate to compare it to the Chem's WATN, but I kept that album on high rotation for months and still listen to it frequently. This one, not so much. It all comes down to Divided By Night's guest vocalists and overall pop driven sound as determined by the vocals. It's a shame, becasue many of these tracks are pretty solid. I would love to hear many of these as instrumentals with most of the lyrics and vocals stripped.

Somoebody recently mentioned the "guest vocalist" trend in another topic and I personally am not a fan. Yes, the Chem's have been very smart and successful with their choices, but I would even like them to scale it down a bit. We've been very lucky with their overall process, style, and decision making regarding collaborations, but they always tend to stand out in the crowd.

I understand it is all about the cash revenue and cross-promotion, but hey, TCM, what do we have to do to get some solid beats without a poppy female vocalist or a male hip hop rapper on top of a thumping track?!?

Same thing may very well happen with Simian Mobile Disco's next album.

Bah.

I haven't picked up Divided by Night, mostly because I don't want to be disappointed. I want to remember The Crsytal Method for the great tracks of the past, and I guess until they come out with something undeniably amazing, they'll remain off my must-listen list.

I fear what the future holds.

My future might be at EDC...to see them live. The album is now slightly growing on me!

i will admit there are a couple of songs with the guest vocalists that bring the album down (such as black rainbows, kling to the wreckage and slipstream)

However the rest of the album is pretty solid. There are some undeniably classic songs that are reminiscent of all their previous albums. In particular Blunts & Robots, Smile and dirty thirty.

I like the album, but im inclined to agree that TCM should of used less guests. Probably should of just done the whole album with Peter Hook lol

I've only just started listening to a few tracks and I have to say that I do like what I hear. However I would like it a lot better if some of the lyrics weren't so naff like in Sine Language. ;p

pffft the vocals and lyrics in sine language are much better then Kling to the Wreckage and Black rainbows. don't know what TCM were thinking with those two tracks

Nothing could be as bad as this line from Sine Language

At the club, the line is long (How long?)

About as long as my dingity-dong

yea i didnt like those lines at first. they pissed me off. However now it just makes me laugh. LFMAO are a colourful duo lol

Thanks for the link Kermit. Hearing it finally for the first time - absolutely love Kling to the Wreckage on first listen - I just didnt get why people didn't like it above me.

This man never ceases to amaze me. I fell in Warfield(he's still the coolest man to rap - not another drugstore) with his collabs with the chems, the remix of bring the pain, and everytime this guy surprises me with his complete versatility. I could never guess this is Warfield having heard just his earlier stuff with the Chems. Rocking.

Onto song 2 - I've been hearing Drown in the Now since Henry sent it along a month back, and I think it's the coolest big beat song in ages - this dude Matisyahu rocks.

I hope the album keeps up.

yea drown in the now has been growing on me in the past 2 weeks. he has a unique voice.

quite a few good songs on that album - i like the album.

Double down Under and of course Klinging to the wreckage stand out at first listens.

To me "double down under" just has this unparalleled phatness to it. Very similar to the song PHD off tweekend. Yet it still has the token crystal method samples throughout the song.

However for me its still "blunts & Robots"

blunts and robots rocks. i ended up liking the entire album last night - heard it many times over - Sine Language kills. klinging to wreckage is my new favourite song.

well man if u enjoy Sine Language, i should show you a mashup of it that my friend did. Its really good, he just phattens it up a bit...you will understand when you hear it. =)

lemme know if you want it :D

Yeah, I'm interested in this mashup! Please send to me too, if you would.

I'm glad you're enjoying the music Navneet :)

ok guys i've uploaded it to sendspace.

tell me what you think of it and i'll pass the comments onto my friend.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9b9482

peace!

...i guess you guys weren't fans of the mashup :P

For some reason, the more I listen to this album, the less I like it. Black Rainbows is terrible as is Slipstream. For what it's worth, Divided By Night is a nice modern electronic album, but it has no tracks that I really really like. And although my opinion is not shared on this, I still don't think they'll top Tweekend. That remains one of my favorite albums to this day.