Hot Chip - C/D?

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.

Let Me Be Him is so great!! i had it on repeat for about two and a half hours last night while doing work in my apartment. such a sad refrain but sung with so much resolve-- the "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" parts remind me of something too, like phil collins or peter gabriel?

max to thread.

max to life

No way is it their best but I'll retract some remarks. Def their second best. The mid tempo things like "Always Been Your Love" and "Now There is Nothing" still annoy me.

"Motion Sickness" is some late eighties Colin Newman meets Eno masterpiece.

the FACT review of this was some bullshit

"motion sickness" is just amazing

not often I say this but I love the lyrics, esp the use of refrain

i think they did the soul stuff better at the end of "made in the dark" tho

jordan otm re: "motion sickness"

"night and day" is straight up garbage.

"let me be him" def my jam tho

now THAT song is gorgeous.

"night and day" sounded really slight to me as a single and i didn't have much interest in it, but the more i listen to it when i play the album the more i like it

it's still several notches below their best singles, but it's still pretty good

so is "Look At Where We Are"

xpost to gr8080

"Night and Day" might work if they didn't remind us that they love Zapp.