Hot Chip - C/D?

What's up with all this stuff about American R&B/hip hop? I don't hear it in the music. Is it press sheet hype or what?

The short answer is you're not listening to enough mainstream R&B radio.

The long answer is go pick up the current issue of (gags, puts iron to head) URB, where you can read about how Hot Chip attempt R&B but it 'all comes out wrong' (paraphrasing). You can interpret this in any number of ways, but you're a smart chap so I'll let you do the legwork.

Bottom line - they carry inflections from contemporary R&B/hip hop production, but when removed from their context said inflections often sound far afield. As they do with the Chipsters.

I agree with this -- though I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "inflections", and I think it goes beyond the production. To me, Hot Chip sounds closer to contemporary R&B than it does to other forms of electronic dance music such as German micro-house. Like the Pet Shop Boys did in the '80s, they are working out of a popular R&B and dance idiom, but because of the singing voices and other influences, they end up sounding rather different.

Hot Chip's new cover of Matthew Dear's Don & Cherri is so lovely.

how do i eat hot chip

carefully

kraftwerk remixes too?!

there's also a promo of a new single called 'shake a fist' going around.

the remix of 'La Forme' is aight

haha I actually wound up liking The Warning, though not enough to give the earlier stuff another try.

"Shake a Fist" is totally awesome.

i'm surprised by how much ilm hated these guys back in the day!

thought the kraftwerk covers were meh

"Ready For The Floor" is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there on the list of songs that need to hit the internet right this expletive-deleted second. V. excited about the Soulwax one, too (although I still think their much-derided bosh-bosh-bosh remixing strategy kicks much ass, so ymmv)!

"Shake A Fist". Whoa. brane. melted.

they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.

they are boring drips. it's like indie record store nerds finally got into r'n'b and dance music because pitchfork told them that's ok now, then decided to make really boring "eclectic" music.

Please can you and every other dullard stop assuming that everyone's life and interests revolve around fucking Pitchfork? Or go and do it somewhere else?

not everyone, just goons like hot chip. c'mon, the singer sounds like neil from the young ones.

"please leave our over-hyped bands alone!"

Mencap OTM. also, max, claiming that they are indie kids gone dance, probably says more about you than them. they gleefully sent up this attitude in "down with prince".

I don't have any particular feelings either way about this band FWIW

i am a dance kid that now listens to a bit of everything. (like everybody these days, natch)

but not hot chip!

The 30 seconds after the studio dude comes in on 'Shake a fist' are probably my favourite musical moment of the year.

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2191611,00.html

every remix, every dj set, practically every song (bar the erol rmx and over & over), every zany gig with them lined up in a self-conscious row by these guys is utter utter shit. the ultimate one-hit wonder who lucked into some bizarro world of cool by virtue of being on dfa

I kinda wish they'd stick to the slow stuff - it suits them so much better than the clever-clogs dance shit. The title track of 'Made In The Dark' is stunning.

Out at the Pictures, song of the year, right?

they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.

agreed! i picked up Made in the Dark yesterday (promo copy, full artwork etc.) and it's fantastic. i liked the previous two records in spots, and not so much in others. but this is their best work, by far. very very good.

i havn't even heard it yet but this shit is going to be huge around here

made in the dark is a MASSIVE album. crikey.

fuck these guys

Has this leaked?

Yep it's leaked, i agree about the slow stuff being better too. The background whistles in "We're Looking For A Lot of Love" are very nice

i listened to this once on the drive down during xmas. i thought it was terrible. the wife who's a huge fan.. thought it was terrible.

i've only heard a couple tracks from this band ever, most of which i wasn't into, but that 'shake a fist' track is good.

fuck these guys
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they certainly do inspire a great deal of ire, but it seems to be all based on their "impurity" and the fact that a lot of their fans seem to be obnoxious buttheads

I liked/like "Boy From School" quite a bit, for one, but the tracks that I've heard from the new record sound like inferior OMD songs.

They're actually pretty good, even if their new record suffers from some questionable sequencing. Their problem, listener-wise, is that they touch on a number of genres whose fans don't like each other very much.

blah-di-blah...
Anyway, I love most of the record and repeated listening pays off. I love how "Hold On" has got the feel & energy of Talking Heads ca. Stop Making Sense, including Byrne-guitar-chops - can't wait to see/hear that one performed live.

This sounded really good on the first listen. The 'getting everything wrong in a good way' moments outweigh the 'getting everything wrong full stop' moments this time. I like the stadium rock guitar at the beginning of One Pure Thought. Not sure about Bendable Poseable though.

Also, they're much better at beats this time.

i wonder what their ep on victory garden is now worth

wish i'd bought it

Boring, and I liked the first two.

i don't like Ready For The Floor much - 'boring' and 'OMD' pretty much nail it!