Hot Chip - C/D?

And yet despite that Hot Chip's sounds entirely fresh and endearing and thrilling to me.

No doubt because the occasion wordless "ooooh" is hardly the only hook each respective song has to offer.

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.

something about these guys has always bugged me, never really loved them, but i like this album! esp the first few songs

i tried getting into this but the vocals kill it for me, pass

Always have that problem with Wet Chip, why guys why

thats always been my ish but it isnt bothering me too much now

haha im glad i read that about flutes cuz otherwise i would have really been bugged by what it reminded me of

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?

some of Turner's high notes still irritate me, yes

this is pretty good you know

never really given these guys the time of day tbh

This is a pretty neat album. Only place the singing got to me was "Look At Where We Are."

do the rest of them do anything much? i haven't had any interest in them for the past few years but these links to let me be him and motion sickness have got me interested again. Tip!

do the rest of them do anything much?

The rest of the band? Everyone swaps instruments a lot. One guy used to do double duty in LCD Soundsystem. There are some songs (live) where pretty much everyone is playing a guitar or something, and other songs where everyone is playing synths.

There are loads of nice touches throughout this - I'm all about the guitar solo and the disembodied girl's voice over the final track at the moment.

Also is the "I don't play no gabba" dude during Night And Day supposed to sound like Tricky?

amazed that this is gaining such traction - the production is improved in places but they're still as awful at ballads as ever and his voice is WORSE than ever. found it a real chore to listen to.

Hah, I was thinking that a proper R&B singer could have made a hit out of 'Look At Where We Are'.

(I mean as a cover, not just singing over the same backing)

If an R&B singer who wasn't The Weeknd or Frank Ocean or Beyoncé covered it, it would be entirely ignored by the entire world.

no way, ppl love that shit

remember when solange covered the dirty projectors

I could imagine Brandy singing it. I agree it's a good song let down by his voice but when I had it on in the car my daughter, who ignored the rest of the album, said "I love this song. It's beautiful." So maybe the reedy slow jams are for the 5-year-old girl market.

holy shit, i love "let me be him". it's very moving.

enjoying their NPR live streaming gig. "Ready for the Floor" -> "Everywhere" pretty great.

Ending with "Let Me Be Him".

killed it on Fallon

The sound mix wasn't doing them any favors, but energetic nerds are always fun to watch.

Up here - another new drummer?! (no questo)

jesus lex stay out of this thread if all you're gonna do is complain about the same shit you always complain about re: hot chip

They had to recruit this guy to play drums for the U.S. dates. Current drummer had visa trouble and couldn't come over.

pretty good at Pitchfork but the sound was a bit...muffled? I don't know.

jesus lex stay out of this thread if all you're gonna do is complain about the same shit you always complain about re: hot chip

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This is what he does. I was reading an old Robyn thread the other day and every other post was him telling everyone how much he can't stand her. This was going back to 2005 and five years later he's posting the same old shit, I can't believe he doesn't get bored of it.

Finally got to see them in Minnesota last week. They were great but the set seemed so short. Looking at the other recent setlists it seems they had to cut Hand Me Down Your Love and Let Me Be Him. Pretty gutted they didn't do Motion Sickness either as that has become my favourite on the new album.

Just saw the other day Look at Where we are is the next single. It's a great song but surely Don't Deny Your Heart is the obvious hit on the album?

Seeing them tomorrow night! So excited.

they were great at pitchfork, i thought

the new songs sounded really good but they haven't really stretched them out or messed around w/ them like the older songs.

SO AMAZING. Chromatics were way better live than on record (and I love them already), and Hot Chip deserved everything I've heard about their live show. They did a Fleetwood Mac cover, they dropped Prince's "If I Was Your Girlfriend" into "Look At Where We Are," and made some tweaks to "Night and Day" that I really wish had made it onto the album- generally streamlining it, also adding this kind of...rattling/scratching sound (like Dennis Bovell's matchbox on "Newtown") and an ooo-weeee-ooooooo theremin-sounding synth line on the chorus.

So "Let Me Be Him" is the best thing ever, amirite?

Let Me Be Him is indeed excellent but think I would put Motion Sickness, Don't Deny Your Heart and Flutes ahead of it.

So they've finally put out the obvious single from the new album. The video is quite brilliant and very bizarre.

http://youtu.be/Gf3bmQh8_dM

They're back.

http://dominorecordco.com/whymakesense/

This is fine but I don't love it. It's the album opener and it's big step down from Motion Sickness.

Can't wait to see them drop two songs and one album into our year-end polls, because tradition.

I rather like this track, btw.

Dud.

It's strange that they have this reputation of being a band that always places in the end of year polls. Two out of their five albums didn't make the lists.

alexis taylor's solo album could barely have been duller

this is a lot better than that

Another new song https://youtu.be/lfH5LmhvQQk

I heard the whole album last night, so it's either "out there" or will be soon. As someone who's always been mostly on the fence about Hot Chip (often with favorable inclinations), this is THEIR album. They finally got everything right.

Really? Very excited to hear hear you say that. I thought their last two albums were where they got everything right. Both a big step up from their earlier albums.

Going by these two songs it sounds like it's going to be quite a dark album.

Too many hears in that sentence obviously. I'm just exited.

i'm calling it now:

#57 on the top 77

I'm surprised at JF's enthusiasm. Listened to it a few times and promptly forgot about it. Nothing even gets close to the high points of the last two

Yeah I've heard mixed reports. I think it leaked last week or something.

Yeah it's definitely out there now.

It's really good and has lots of beautiful moments. Not quite as brilliant as the last two albums but very good all the way through. The two singles might be my least favourite songs on the album.