Well, I've got to be honest: I really dislike Nothing But Pleasure. So much so that I didn't even bother to put it in my collection. It's got a few nice parts, but overall, this one is rather tedious to listen to. Like you guys said, it comes across as uninspired, empty even, repeating its main theme over and over without going in any meaningful direction. It's a little bit like their official remix of Boyz Noize's XTC.
Especially the main leading synth Tom uses to build the tension in NBP is hard on the ears and makes me uneasy the longer it goes on.
The one thing I do like about this track, though, is the drums.
Through Me is the much better song of the two in my opinion. It has more of a structure with less annoying instrumentation and it's got more layers than NBP. The acid lines are nice and the climax at around 3:20 is dope and typcial Chems (or should I say Tom) style.
Maybe Tom wanted to help push Erols label a bit by contributing a song from one half of the Chems? Maybe he found it behind a sofa? Or maybe he just wanted to release some more experimental stuff for the fun of it without being bound by any Chems label.
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