I apologize for talking about this in Ed's birthday thread. I wish him best wishes always. But it literally feels like Tom and Ed have no passion left for the music. Recent tracks on Phantasy are sub-par. Through me is good but not fucking great. Nothing but pleasure is though inspired, very ineffective after the first drop. I've been a believer of chems since forever and now I see them slipping so I feel like I should address it. If we as fans don't care then Chems don't care. If Chems don't care then I'm sorry to say that the future of music is looking very bleek. Are we going to allow the future generation to listen to skrillex? Our kids growing up to listen to trance dubstep ? Is this what we want? NO we don't. I'm not going to listen to chems anymore starting today, until and unless they produce/dj something good. Continue to live in the delusion that chems are making great music and we'll have a "Plookaville" and "human after all" type album coming soon.

Ah, now I see where you might coming from. I wasn't pleased with "Nothing but Pleasure" as well, in fact couldn't stand it and said so here on the forums. But at no time it evoked any connotations of poor future chems music or anything related that might be on the horizon. I really liked the Hanna OST, the velodrome song was also quite nice and suitable for a cycling theme. Nope, I'm not able to see this kind of black smoke of pessimism so far.
And as for the dj set. Well, I wouldn't be thrilled all the time either. No day's like the other. But I do concur that the behavioral attitude of audiences has been going downhill since the mainstream utilization of smartphones an the like.

And btw, to stop listening to great music (what ever this might encompass) is like giving up on eating good strawberry cakes just because of one stale strawberry in the past.

is like judging their future based on some obscure b-side like Buzz Tracks

Just keep in mind, judging their future work based on Through Me/Nothing But Pleasure is like judging their future based on some obscure b-side like Buzz Tracks or The Rock Drill. Plus, it was a solo release, and those typically are different from the band's normal body of work.

LOL, no way is that picture an accurate description of what has happened here so far. If you consider Chems to be a wild bear then I'd be a little mouse. I'm judging Chems based on what I hear. Its safe to say that Through me and nothing but pleasure could be considered unofficially next in line of electronic battle weapons. They get released between albums and are handed out to selected djs. Sort of what happened to these two tracks before Erol decided to release them on his label. A little tease of what the future album might sound like. Also, Superflash is not that exciting you have to admit. Quality of these tracks is very b-sideish, unfinished though not released with that intention.

Too much strawberry cake is bad for you. I don't want to have any weight issues. LMAO