Tom Rowlands, one half of the Chemical Brothers, is back today with his first solo release since 2013. Released via Phantasy, the double A-side single "We Are Nothing" / "All Night" features all the bombastic, frenetic drum programming you could want from a guy who helped to define a subgenre called big beat, though few would confuse it with his best-known ChemBros work. The former track has a funky disco-house groove that made my hips move involuntarily, and it keeps building into something intense and psychedelic, strategically deploying a sample of Canadian outsider artist Bill Bissett. The latter boasts frantic jungle-ish skittering that takes me back to the turn of the millennium. Check out both tracks below.
GET THE STEREOGUM DIGEST
The week's most important music stories and least important music memes.
