The Chemical Brothers, Born in Echoes - album review: A timely contrast to the bland EDM of Calvin Harris and David Guetta

While The Chemical Brothers’ first album in five years offers few if any sonic breakthroughs of the kind they effected with the likes of “Setting Sun”, it does offer a timely contrast with the sort of bland, utilitarian Electronic Dance Music (EDM) so profitably purveyed by such as Calvin Harris and David Guetta – as so often, the American adoption of a form involves the substitution of income for inspiration.