The Chemical Brothers

Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons met at the University of Manchester in 1989 and started DJing together in 1992. Over three decades they turned big beat into stadium-scale psychedelia: Exit Planet Dust (1995), Dig Your Own Hole (1997), Surrender (1999), No Geography (2019). 'Asleep From Day' is the Surrender track that shows their softer hand. A narcotic, genuinely tender ballad sung by Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star, dropped into the middle of a record otherwise built for a field at 2am. In 2026 their 2015 single 'Go' climbed to No. 4 in the UK, eleven years after release and their first top-ten single in 22 years, after Taron Egerton approached the band to use it in the Netflix thriller Apex. Most recent album: For That Beautiful Feeling (2023).

From the notes for Episode 07 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.