For That Beautiful Feeling is the tenth studio album by English electronic music duo the Chemical Brothers, released on 8 September 2023 through EMI Records. It is the duo's first album in four years.
Background
The band announced the album's name and track list on 19 July 2023.
The album will be paired with a career-spanning retrospective book Paused in Cosmic Reflection to be published by White Rabbit on 26 October 2023. The book is made up of new interviews with the band, as well as many of their friends and collaborators from the past three decades, including Noel Gallagher, Aurora, Wayne Coyne, Beth Orton, Beck, and Michel Gondry.
Critical reception
For That Beautiful Feeling received a score of 81 out of 100 on review aggregator Metacritic based on nine critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Uncut wrote that the Chemical Brothers "produce a whole lot of full-fat dance-pop joy" on the album. Damien Morris of The Observer described it as a "nonsense-free reaffirmation of the dance duo's greatest strength – making largely instrumental psychedelic house and techno somehow sound like pop music".
Track listing
Personnel
The Chemical Brothers
Tom Rowlands – production, programming, mixing, engineering (all tracks); vocals (tracks 5, 8) Ed Simons – production, programming
Additional musicians
Halo Maud – vocals (1, 2, 11) Beck – vocals (8)