One Life Stand
Dialing back some of their eccentricities and embracing personal songwriting, Hot Chip have crafted their most consistent album yet.
From the beginning, riffing on R&B tropes has been part of Hot Chip’s program, though the London quartet’s soft production edges can make that hard to hear for Americans more accustomed to R&B’s harder-edged beats and sonic tricks. So has the group’s prankster sensibility, in which a lyric such as “I’m like Stevie…
Since their [a]Prince[/a]-loving gawk-hop 2004 debut ‘Coming On Strong’, complete with songs about Peugeot cruising, Hawaiian shirts and blasting out Yo La Tengo from the sub-woofers, [a]Hot Chip[/a] have gradually soldered their decreasingly geeky, increasingly sophisticated dance-pop onto the nation’s hearts.
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Hot Chip have grown up, and it seems what they "must do" is tone down the craziness and get a little sentimental with it.
The news that the new Hot Chip album was a lower bpm effort that 2008’s ‘Made In The Dark’ seemed to prompt undue concern in some quarters.
If only all bands possessed so many great ideas, writes <strong>Gareth Grundy</strong>
Hot Chip is faced with the task of controlling the erratic habits they developed on 2008’s Made in the Dark.
Pared back and prised open, Hot Chip are nonetheless still making music you can exult to, says <strong>Paul MacInnes</strong>
If we’re going to point fingers, Hot Chip is probably the band most responsible for inviting indie America to the dancefloors throughout the last decade.