Made In The Dark
London's Hot Chip follow their breakthrough 2006 LP, The Warning, with the lovable but flawed Made in the Dark.
Hot Chip has always been nerdy, but it's never been nerdy enough to forsake an interest in how its nerdiness would be perceived. Even the most antic moments on previous albums felt a little hedged or uncertain, if not for a group of homebound English boys, then certainly for an act regarded as a paragon of…
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Describe Hot Chip to an indifferent friend in as few words as you can and you'll struggle, because all the usual tick-box tags fade as sharply as a goldfish's attention span when faced with a band as wilfully divergent as this one.
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The band attempts to square its outsize floor-filling ambition with its previously established skill for intimate moments.
For many listeners, the most memorable lyric from Hot Chip's amazing third album may be this:
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark review: A quirkier, though far less impressive, outing for the UK electronica goons.