The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
Settings Sun
Freestyle Dust CHEMSD4 (1996)
The Chemical Brothers had supported Oasis at Knebworth and although not a direct part of the brit-pop scene they were tied up in it especially as they remixed at the time many of the brit-pop tracks.
Noel Gallagher had contacted the band wanting to produce a track with them and he was given a track at the time entitled "Mark One" which they thought might appeal to him as it had Beatles feel to it (think Tomorrow Never Knows). Written by The Chemical Brothers (Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons), Noel supplied the lyrics and then recorded the vocals.
Once mixed the single was released in September 1996 and, having sold in excess of 90,000 copies in the first week, reached #1 in the UK charts.
The track has been critically acclaimed by many including Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger who wrote: "without Gallagher’s input, without his weak but unpretentious voice trying to keep pace, the track just doesn’t work. He gives it a sense of occasion... the five minutes when the man who ended up Britain’s biggest star of the decade produced a record that sounded like he deserved it."
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