Hot Chip - C/D?

I think the new single is fierce!

dude's voice is actually the exact opposite of fierce

wow this is just... wow. i am so mad i decided to listen to that.

He reminds me of Tom Ellard from Severed Heads, but at least Ellard had the sense to filter/distort his vocals.

I've been a Hot Chip apologist for a long time, but it ends now.

I'm kind of in love with this at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH_HEXzPB4k&feature=relmfu

so Grosvenor blokey is a full member now?

Alexis voice sounds fine there btw

I keep warming to them a little more with each passing year. From a starting position of "Who are these jokers?" I am now at "I think Hot Chip are probably the best modern British band." Which is not something I expected to believe.

funny, i've gone the other way - i found them to be overall a Good Thing earlier in their career, maybe not a band i'd be obsessed about but reliable for the occasional great jam, enjoyable live show that no one in any group would object to, fun DJ sets, good fodder for remixers. but ennui has definitely set in over the years as it becomes more and more clear that they're just the kind of journeymen whose output is permanently stuck at three-star quality. i listened to the new one out of a sense of duty and was relieved when it finished..

Alexis voice sounds fine there btw

sounds bloody awful imo.

well comparatively!

though if Grosvenor's up playing things and singing now it would be a boon to turn most of the vocals over to him and Joe

I keep warming to them a little more with each passing year. From a starting position of "Who are these jokers?" I am now at "I think Hot Chip are probably the best modern British band." Which is not something I expected to believe.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens)

I kind of agree with this. Really hated them when I first heard them, did not get the fuss about Over & Over at all but now they might just be my favourite British band around. Night & Day is the weakest of the new tracks I've heard but that one I just posted is one of the best things they've done. There's like 3 great choruses in that song. As for his vocals I've no problem with them at all, he always sounds really vulnerable which kind of works with how warm the music is.

I like a couple of songs off each album. I don't think they've ever managed to be inspired enough, often enough. I like the idea of them.

I think their last two albums are head and shoulders above the first three. It's like they've always loved dance music but for ages they felt obliged to put air quotes around it. The new album makes me think of New Order's Technique.

I don't like Alexis' trousers.

so Grosvenor blokey is a full member now?

he and girl drummer lady are in the new (Serafinowicz-directed, Reggie Watts- and Terence Stamp-starring) video so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fxg2JbWA7Nk

She is the drummer from New Young Pony Club apparently.

It's a good video but I'm starting to get annoyed that they chose Night & Day as the single instead of Don't Deny Your Heart.

sounds good

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/03/154073556/first-listen-hot-chip-in-our-heads

New album is really good. Let Me Be Him might just be the most moving song they've done.

Incredible song - maybe their best yet.

The album version of "Don't Deny Your Heart" is fucking ace.

I'm loving this album

Yeah Don't Deny Your Heart sounds so great, it could be a really big hit for them. There really isn't anything on here I don't like, yet another great album.

thirding the Don't Deny Your Heart love

the first song on this is fucking amazing

so if I've been skeptical since 2006 should I listen?

The production's a lot better on this than on previous Hot Chip records, but if you've not been fussed about them before I doubt this is exactly going to change your mind.

"Don't Deny Your Heart" is good!

the first song on this is fucking amazing

― J0rdan S

Might be my favourite opening track they've done.

i don't know don't deny sounds like it's building into something great but then fumbles it on the chorus which sounds like it's beamed in from another song. that's off 2 listens admittedly.

I love this band so much. Don't see why anyone would be "skeptical," though. I think you either love them or you don't, but Alfred, it seems comfortably in your wheelhouse.

(Also, incredible live act, which helps)

xxpost, i agreed at first about the sudden shift w/ the chorus but after 4 or 5 listens it's become fun and endearing

xpost i definitely am skeptical about them -- i thought the warning and made in the dark were solid but i never really gelled with them beyond the big singles. and i thought one life stand was a pretty weak record. but i love this one back to front.

The dinkiness has always bothered me but it sounds – on first listen – like they've developed their grooves.

Huh. I think "One Life Stand" is their best one, and the first one that sounded fully groove-developed to me. I love the wistfulness to much of their stuff - the Wyatt collab was a tip-off - and the fact that they are kind of a band that makes you dance rather than a dance band, which puts them in the same hybrid box as New Order and LCD Soundsystem. But really more idiosyncratic than both of those acts.

I disagree re New Order.

I do love "One Life Stand" the single.

You mean that you think New Order is idiosyncratic? I used to think so, when the band was still finding its way, but as much as I love New Order I find the group pretty conservative, actually. Stuff I once saw as adventurous I now see as either lazy or half thought out. The miracle of New Order is that that usually still worked!

Not going to take sides but this album really reminds me of Technique in its balance of introvert and extrovert.

I do love how Hot Chip, unlike LCD Soundsystem, can get away with recalling New Order without sounding like New Order. I think that keys in on one of its gifts.

i think maybe i just never found my way inside of those idiosyncrasies, never found the proper angle from which to listen to the unique things they were doing, so to speak. which is why Boy From School, Ready for the Floor -- where idiosyncrasies are balanced with easy universality -- appealed to me the most. One Life Stand being the "most Hot Chip" and therefore probably most idiosyncratic of their albums, i "got it" the least. but i've taken to the new one so instantly that i think it may be my key for going back and understanding their other music.

exactly. I understand their goofiness attracts people; to me it sounds arch.

Again, I think the group live is key. You think you only like the singles until you see the band pull off two-hours of all killer stuff. Though I admit I can imagine it coming off arch, if anything I also get a sense of over-earnestness. Hence the Duality of the Hot Chip Thing.

word. plus Alexis Taylor has a very, very odd voice that doesn't necessarily seem so at first blush. to me that makes them somewhat inscrutable vis a vis arch vs. earnest

yeah, they're basically their own "remixers" live. Everything is amped up more than on record. I've seen them three or four times and it's always great.

You think One Life Stand is the MOST idiosyncratic, caulk? Sounds to me like by far their most warm, sincere and straightforward up to that point.

I think "Made in the Dark" is the weird, hard to get into one.

omigod the one that goes MEVSYOUVSMEVSYOUVSMEVSYOU is exactly what I mean about their cuteness

my statement might be based on my original perception of the band: as a DFA-esque dance group rather than a smoove pop group. Made in the Dark is pretty weird, but it fit my preconception of them better. One Life Stand had less of that, and that's probably why i was turned off by it

I'm not really feeling Don't Deny Your Love - there's a hell of a lot going on in that song and I'm not sure it really hangs together very well, especially in the first minute or so.

The rest of it is great. Especially enjoying Motion Sickness, Flutes and Now There Is Nothing at the moment. Obviously Flutes is about 80% Sky Was Pink DNA but it's lovely nonetheless. Now There Is Nothing is intriguing, like you could imagine Hot Chip taking late 60s psych-pop as a starting point and running somewhere much more interesting with it than most indie bands are able to manage.

Apart from Now There Is Nothing and How Do You Do, which are fine but not great, I unambiguously love this record. I've played it more than anything else this year. They were terrific headlining Lovebox too.

I'm starting to think this might be their best record. Everything has just fallen into place and I just can't find any weak tracks. Night & Day might be my least favourite song on there but it's still stuck in my head a lot of the time. Don't Deny Your Heart, Let Me Be Him, Motion Sickness and Flutes are all so amazing and really up there with their best songs.

Seeing them live next month for the first time, so excited.