"Wide Open"-Chemical Brothers
I found myself alone, on a passenger car linked-up far behind the locomotive where the steady, evenly spaced clicks of the steel wheels against the tracks below the floor put me into a six-minute semi-hypnotic-like trance.
Well, sort of.
Well, sort of.
At least those were a few of the first images that drifted around in my head while zoning-out to the latest Chemical Brothers creation "Wide Open." But I must admit, this ultra-alternative track is not for everyone.
Twenty-years after becoming electronica pioneers, the duo released the album Born In The Echoes (rumored to be their last) which features "Wide Open," a simple four-chord recording supporting the song's mechanical yet floating, dreamy aura. They told Rolling Stone, "We wanted to make a record that would fit alongside the other records we've made, and we both felt that there was another good Chemical Brothers album in us."
For vocals, the "Brothers" (Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons) wisely recruited Beck whose laid-back delivery didn't dominate, but instead softly complimented the duo's synth-laden backing track. Beck's lines seem to be deep but empathetic, most likely to fans like me with more than a few decades under their belts. "Slow me down, it's getting away from me. It's getting away from me. Getting away... from... me."
Aside from being the kings of EDM, the Chemical Brothers are also well known for their imaginative promotional music videos, most notably the visually trippy 1999 clip "Let Forever Be."
Most likely inspired by last year's sci-fi film "Ex Machina," the recently released mini-music movie for "Wide Open" is just as fascinating and beautifully compliments the duo's Kraftwerkian creation giving the song yet another dimension. Trust me... check it out below. It's pretty cool.
