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"Come with Us" / "The Test" is a double A-side single from the Chemical Brothers' fourth studio album, Come with Us (2002). The vocals in "The Test" are performed by Richard Ashcroft. When released, the single reached number 11 in Spain, number 14 in the United Kingdom, and number 36 in Ireland. In Italy and the United States, only "Come with Us" was released, peaking at number 41 on the Italian Singles Chart and number eight on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.

"Come with Us" / "The Test"
Single by the Chemical Brothers
from the album Come with Us
B-side	"H.I.A"
Released	22 April 2002 (2002-04-22)
Studio	Miloco (South London, England)
Length	3:40 ("Come with Us") 4:33 ("The Test")
Label	Freestyle Dust Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons, Tony Rallo, Copperman, Peter Krissen, David Fairstein ("Come with Us") Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons, Richard Ashcroft, Czesław Niemen ("The Test")
Producer(s)	The Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers singles chronology
"Star Guitar" (2002) "Come with Us" / "The Test" (2002) "The Golden Path" (2003)

The spoken-word intro from "Come with Us" is sampled from "The Evidence" by Evidence while "The Test" contains a sample from "Pielgrzym" by Polish singer Czesław Niemen, first released in 1972. In Japan, the two songs were swapped in the single title, making the single's title "The Test" / "Come with Us".

"The Test"

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Music video

The music video for "The Test" features actress Holly Weston and is directed by Nick Goffey and Dominic Hawley.

The video begins with a woman, played by Weston, swimming deep underwater. Weston is then approached by a whale, which she then swims into the mouth of. She then sees a large amount of jellyfish, which flash multi colours matching the song's beat. The woman then sees rays of light coming from the water's surface and swims towards the rays. She is then seen emerging from a well onto a shingle beach, where the sun quickly rises behind her. The woman then slowly walks down the beach, as a separate scene of the same woman in a nightclub flashes on and off screen. Then the woman sees a young girl running down the beach wearing a red coat.

The video then cuts to a scene which appears to show the woman's hand turning into smoke as she slowly arcs her left arm from right to left, with the beach in complete darkness with white strobe lights in the background. Weston then begins to follow the girl in the red coat seen earlier until they stop at a large expanse of grass with a disused railway track running through the middle and some wooden huts in the distance. The woman then appears to see a young boy holding a hula hoop around a levitating girl's waist, after which the two disappear, leaving behind the boy's cape. The woman then arrives at an old barn to find the girl in the red coat standing there, looking towards the barn. The woman then looks at the girl's face, and the girl is revealed to be a Cyclops. After that, the barn's side appears to come loose and crashes to the ground, sending up a cloud of dust, after which the video then goes back to the nightclub, and it is revealed that all the previous events were in the woman's imagination, either a daydream or as a result of taking hallucinogenic drugs. After that, there is a scene where the camera is moving rapidly and strobe lights flash onto some wooden structures on the beach. Then the video quickly goes into reverse and then ends back at the opening scene.

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the Come with Us album booklet.[7]

Studios

• Recorded at Miloco Studios (South London, England)
• Edited in the Miloco Studios basement
• Mastered at The Exchange (London, England)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)[8]	80
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100)[9]	51
Ireland (IRMA)[10]	36
Ireland Dance (IRMA)[11]	2
Italy (FIMI)[12] "Come with Us" only	41
Scotland (OCC)[13]	19
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[14]	11
UK Singles (OCC)[15]	14
UK Dance (OCC)[16]	1
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[17] "Come with Us" only	8
US Dance Singles Sales (Billboard)[18] "Come with Us" only	25

Release history

Region	Release date	Format	Label(s)	Catalogue	Ref.
United Kingdom	22 April 2002	CD	Freestyle Dust Virgin	CHEMSD15	[19]
		12-inch vinyl		CHEMST15
		DVD		CHEMSDVD15
Japan	26 April 2002	CD	Virgin Japan	VJCP-12155
Australia	29 April 2002		Freestyle Dust Virgin	CHEMSD15	[20]

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