max to life
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
"Motion Sickness" is some late eighties Colin Newman meets Eno masterpiece.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
the FACT review of this was some bullshit
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
"motion sickness" is just amazing
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
not often I say this but I love the lyrics, esp the use of refrain
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
i think they did the soul stuff better at the end of "made in the dark" tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
jordan otm re: "motion sickness"
"night and day" is straight up garbage.
"let me be him" def my jam tho
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
now THAT song is gorgeous.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
so is "Look At Where We Are"
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago) link
xpost to gr8080
"Night and Day" might work if they didn't remind us that they love Zapp.
it's less them reminding us that they love zapp and more them reminding us that they're hot chip & they'll write an ironically bad lyric whenever they so please
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
"Let Me Be Him" and "Flutes" are so great, I could go w/ a whole album of epic jams like that
― Simon H., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
HC and Zapp both have a tendency to elide an ephemeral song by loading it with cute sound FX.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
This is nowhere near as good as the last album, but I love the highs, like "Flutes" and "Motion Sickness."
"Night and Day" is like a mid-'90s Prince track.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
max to thread.
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:36
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:38
max to reality
― the hat's filthy lesson (sic), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:28 (twelve years ago) link
however do we need him
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
No way is it their best but I'll retract some remarks. Def their second best.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Which is your favourite? This and One Life Stand are very close for me.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S
I always thought those were the weakest tracks on that album, I would have prefered it to be a ten track album and end with Wrestlers.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
I think it might be their best, honestly. Maybe doesn't have the peaks of The Warning, but it's a really strong album from start to finish. Definitely better than the last two.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to The Warning the other day and it's really all over the place and kind of shonky - the first track is a mess, it's all a bit primary school instrumentation in places, the highs are fantastic but its way inconsistent. Probably unique in Hot Chip albums in actually getting stronger towards the end though.
I think the new one is probably their most consistently good, not sure the peaks are quite as high but at least it doesn't slip to the most half-arsed lows of Made In The Dark.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
Let Me Be Him is so killer. Everyone I know who's heard this album thinks that's the one. Like gr8080 I can't quite place the origin of those chants but the effect is so familiar. I'm also obsessed with the vocal loop on Flutes - apparently based on an old record of chanting monks.
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 09:37 (twelve years ago) link
Like gr8080 I can't quite place the origin of those chants but the effect is so familiar
Biko?
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
Despite a slushy first trask, The Warning is their best.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 11:02 (twelve years ago) link
The chants in "Let Him Be Me" are a little bit Howard Jones, a little bit "Self-Control."
This song is a perfect example of how often people forget there are two singers in this band, and they each bring their own sensibility to their respective tracks.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 12:44 (twelve years ago) link
I get a hint of a, uh, sincere take on "Tarzan Boy".
― etc, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
It's not the same sample but it reminded me a bit of Enfants (Chants) by Villalobos. Over The Sky Was Pink obviously.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
ha yeah i immediately thought of Sky Was Pink when i heard that
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
oh you mentioned that days ago too
yeah, they've acknowledged it's a rip
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
they have? link?
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
re Let Me Be Him; yeah i can't recall an album track being so raved about and hyped up for years
the chants are this aren't they pretty much?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLQNrr15sA
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
Reminds me a bit of the vocals in Wire's "Kidney Bingos."
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
can't find a direct quote but
Hot Chip's Joe Goddard tells Pitchfork that "Flutes" was one of the first songs that he and bandmate Alexis Taylor wrote for the new album. Its origin came from a sample of a two-note flute melody, its main inspiration from James Holden's remix of Nathan Fake's "The Sky Was Pink". The band chose the song as In Our Head's first song to be made public as a left turn for listeners: "I like it when bands come back with something that's fresh and unusual, you know?," Goddard said. "It's a more ambitious song than other things we've done in the past. I worked on it a lot to make sure it's constantly developing in an unusual way. I'm pleased with how it turned out."
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
re: Let Me Be Him/gr8080 - the "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" parts remind me of something too, like phil collins or peter gabriel?
Feel like it may be something more recent like one of the songs on the Holy Ghost! album?
― willem, Thursday, 21 June 2012 08:09 (twelve years ago) link
I thought of Phil Collins or Gabriel as well but tbh every second pop song that comes out these days seems to have an "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" type chorus so it could be anything.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 June 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
It's a bit like a Coldplay chant if we're being brutally honest, and nothing wrong with that.
― Get wolves (DL), Thursday, 21 June 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
In a post Arcade Fire world, every song has a wordless "ooooooh" or two on it.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 June 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Hacky Red One-type pop producers aiming for a stadium anthem with terrace chant crossover on every single record probably has a hand in that too.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 21 June 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
And yet despite that Hot Chip's sounds entirely fresh and endearing and thrilling to me.
― Get wolves (DL), Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
No doubt because the occasion wordless "ooooh" is hardly the only hook each respective song has to offer.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 June 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
The synthy bits in "Flutes" initially reminded me of Booka Shade, but yeah, I can definitely see "The Sky Was Pink" as an overall inspiration.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
something about these guys has always bugged me, never really loved them, but i like this album! esp the first few songs
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
i tried getting into this but the vocals kill it for me, pass
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
Always have that problem with Wet Chip, why guys why
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
thats always been my ish but it isnt bothering me too much now
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
haha im glad i read that about flutes cuz otherwise i would have really been bugged by what it reminded me of
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
now i'm thinking that the "ooooo oooo ooo oh oh oh haay oh" part reminds me of a song from some commercial? like for a car or some foreign country's tourism ad?
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link