The Chemical Brothers "Surrender"

Surrender is the third studio album by English electronic music duo The Chemical Brothers. It was released on 21 June 1999 in the United Kingdom by Freestyle Dust and Virgin Records and in the United States by Astralwerks. The album saw the duo exploring further various electronic styles, including house music. Four singles were released from the album: "Hey Boy Hey Girl", "Let Forever Be", "Out of Control", and "Music: Response".

Surrender features Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star), Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Jonathan Donahue (Mercury Rev) as guest vocalists.

The album is much more experimental than previous efforts, with tracks like "Let Forever Be" which is a very clear tribute to The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows. "Out Of Control" is more house influenced, and the breakout single "Hey Boy Hey Girl" has a familiar rave sound.

Many of the artists that the duo worked with on this album, they would work with again. The duo were quick to work again with Bobby Gillespie, who appears on the third track and third single "Out of Control", as they remixed Gillespie's Primal Scream song "Swstk Ys" (as it was titled on the 1999 single release) which later appeared on the band's 2000 album Xtrmntr. Surrender was the first Chemical Brothers album not to feature a guest appearance from Beth Orton, though she would appear on the following album Come with Us on the song "The State We're In".

The album and singles artwork was provided by London-based silkscreen artist and illustrator Kate Gibb using screen prints of photographs found in the Hulton Picture Library, Gibb also went on to illustrate the Chemical Brothers albums Come With Us, We Are the Night and Brotherhood. The cover image was a treatment of a photograph called Jesus Amongst the Fans taken by Richard Young at The Great British Music Festival at the Kensington Olympia in 1976. The Jesus in question was a music fan called William Jellett who had adopted the divine moniker and was often seen dancing ecstatically at concerts across the UK from the 1960s to the 1990s, his miracles were to give dried fruit and nuts to strangers. Ed Simons said of the album cover in Q Magazine, "We liked the idea of everyone else sitting down and being chilled out and just one person really getting it, like one of our gigs in the Midwest, actually". The magazine stated, however, in February 1999 the duo were confronted with a novel problem: they had, in Simons' words "about two weeks" to sort out an album cover, plan a live show, and do endless promotional duties in Japan. At one point, the image that was used as the single cover for "Out of Control", released later in 1999, was intended to be the album cover of Surrender.

The album was the band's second number one album. It was certified 2× Platinum by the BPI on 30 September 2005. A special tour edition of the album was released in Australia and New Zealand, which contained a second disc of B-sides from the album.

Track listing

1. "Music:Response" 5:20
2. "Under the Influence" 4:16
3. "Out of Control" (featuring Bernard Sumner) 7:20
4. "Orange Wedge" 3:07
5. "Let Forever Be" (featuring Noel Gallagher) 3:56
6. "The Sunshine Underground"  8:38
7. "Asleep from Day" (featuring Hope Sandoval) 4:47
8. "Got Glint?" 5:27
9. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" 4:51
10. "Surrender" 4:30
11. "Dream On" (featuring Jonathan Donahue; contains a hidden track, which is a reprise of the same song) 6:47

Total length: 58:53

As with all other albums by The Chemical Brothers, some of the tracks segue into the next. These are 1 into 2, 2 into 3, 8 into 9, 9 into 10, and finally 10 into 11.

The album cover appeared in Q magazine's 2001 list of "Q's 100 Best Record Covers of All Time". and is ranked number 981 in All-Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd. edition, 2000).

Leeds band The Sunshine Underground took their name from the sixth track on the album.