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― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 7 April 2005 05:12 (8 years ago) Permalink
a lot more acoustic .. no electro toys in use ...
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:32 (8 years ago) Permalink
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:02 (8 years ago) Permalink
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― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:43 (8 years ago) Permalink
Driving in my Peugeot heyyeah 20 inch rims with the chrome now heyyeah Blazing out Yo La Tengo heyyeahDriving around Putney with the top down heyyeah
― pinder (pinder), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:35 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 28 July 2005 03:40 (7 years ago) Permalink
"no fit state" is the high point.
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:57 (7 years ago) Permalink
what's the score? do they have a proper album out? the track that DFA remixed is called 'just like we'. that's ace too.
― piscesboy, Monday, 19 December 2005 13:40 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Monday, 16 January 2006 05:47 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 16 January 2006 06:34 (7 years ago) Permalink
i can't think back to this experience without cringing.
― bell labs (bell_labs), Monday, 16 January 2006 18:29 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 16 January 2006 19:18 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― nancyboy (nancyboy), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:07 (7 years ago) Permalink
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:15 (7 years ago) Permalink
no, have a need for a breathy, "sincere" Ween. I have not yet tried the CD myself.
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:18 (7 years ago) Permalink
― klee (klee), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:27 (7 years ago) Permalink
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:48 (7 years ago) Permalink
do you like it?
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 12:57 (7 years ago) Permalink
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 13:17 (7 years ago) Permalink
there's also the Over and Over / Just Like We single, which I guess is a preview of their second record
― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:14 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:58 (7 years ago) Permalink
― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:01 (7 years ago) Permalink
is this gonna be on DFA?
― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 06:03 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:02 (7 years ago) Permalink
CarefulOver & OverBoy From SchoolColoursJust Like We (Breakdown)No Fit StateTchaparianLook After MeThe WarningArrest YourselfSo Glad to See YouUntitled
― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 20:13 (7 years ago) Permalink
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― hearts, Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:01 (7 years ago) Permalink
its still way way fun and i can still feel it with my hands and my tongue but something seems a bit temporary about it all. (god, jaded about an album not even released for another 2 months - someone cut me up soon.)
― {apal moon, Thursday, 9 March 2006 01:15 (7 years ago) Permalink
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/upcoming_events/events.php?id=30357
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:31 (6 years ago) Permalink
they were fan-fuckingtastic at Sonar
I'm very puzzled by the "temporary" comments people seem to be making - of all the new artists 2000-onwards, these guys are one of the few that get constant replay - probably the album I've listened to most this year, never really outstays its welcome. if a better record comes out this year it'll be shock.
― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:41 (6 years ago) Permalink
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― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:40 (6 years ago) Permalink
i'll bump this thread on fri so kids can maybe pre/at-show meetup
― nervous (cochere), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:02 (6 years ago) Permalink
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:01 (6 years ago) Permalink
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― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 02:39 (6 years ago) Permalink
What's up with all this stuff about American R&B/hip hop? I don't hear it in the music. Is it press sheet hype or what?
― Gavin (Gavin), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:12 (6 years ago) Permalink
The short answer is you're not listening to enough mainstream R&B radio.
The long answer is go pick up the current issue of (gags, puts iron to head) URB, where you can read about how Hot Chip attempt R&B but it 'all comes out wrong' (paraphrasing). You can interpret this in any number of ways, but you're a smart chap so I'll let you do the legwork.
Bottom line - they carry inflections from contemporary R&B/hip hop production, but when removed from their context said inflections often sound far afield. As they do with the Chipsters.
― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:19 (6 years ago) Permalink
I agree with this -- though I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "inflections", and I think it goes beyond the production. To me, Hot Chip sounds closer to contemporary R&B than it does to other forms of electronic dance music such as German micro-house. Like the Pet Shop Boys did in the '80s, they are working out of a popular R&B and dance idiom, but because of the singing voices and other influences, they end up sounding rather different.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 2 August 2006 18:39 (6 years ago) Permalink
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― nervous (cochere), Sunday, 6 August 2006 01:48 (6 years ago) Permalink
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 6 August 2006 13:53 (6 years ago) Permalink
― o. nate (onate), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:45 (6 years ago) Permalink
Hot Chip's new cover of Matthew Dear's Don & Cherri is so lovely.
― Alba, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
how do i eat hot chip
― King Boy Pato, Sunday, 16 September 2007 12:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
carefully
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
kraftwerk remixes too?!
there's also a promo of a new single called 'shake a fist' going around.
― haitch, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
the remix of 'La Forme' is aight
― blueski, Sunday, 16 September 2007 13:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
haha I actually wound up liking The Warning, though not enough to give the earlier stuff another try.
― da croupier, Sunday, 16 September 2007 15:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Shake a Fist" is totally awesome.
― Ben Boyerrr, Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
i'm surprised by how much ilm hated these guys back in the day!
― ^@^, Sunday, 16 September 2007 20:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
thought the kraftwerk covers were meh
― jaxon, Sunday, 16 September 2007 21:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Ready For The Floor" is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there on the list of songs that need to hit the internet right this expletive-deleted second. V. excited about the Soulwax one, too (although I still think their much-derided bosh-bosh-bosh remixing strategy kicks much ass, so ymmv)!
― jamescobo, Monday, 17 September 2007 15:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Shake A Fist". Whoa. brane. melted.
― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
they've always been almost great to me, but this is something else.
― Roz, Friday, 28 September 2007 09:27 (5 years ago) Permalink
they are boring drips. it's like indie record store nerds finally got into r'n'b and dance music because pitchfork told them that's ok now, then decided to make really boring "eclectic" music.
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
Please can you and every other dullard stop assuming that everyone's life and interests revolve around fucking Pitchfork? Or go and do it somewhere else?
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 28 September 2007 12:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
not everyone, just goons like hot chip. c'mon, the singer sounds like neil from the young ones.
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
"please leave our over-hyped bands alone!"
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
Mencap OTM. also, max, claiming that they are indie kids gone dance, probably says more about you than them. they gleefully sent up this attitude in "down with prince".
― jed_, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
I don't have any particular feelings either way about this band FWIW
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
i am a dance kid that now listens to a bit of everything. (like everybody these days, natch)
but not hot chip!
― max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 13:06 (5 years ago) Permalink
The 30 seconds after the studio dude comes in on 'Shake a fist' are probably my favourite musical moment of the year.
― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 14:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2191611,00.html
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
every remix, every dj set, practically every song (bar the erol rmx and over & over), every zany gig with them lined up in a self-conscious row by these guys is utter utter shit. the ultimate one-hit wonder who lucked into some bizarro world of cool by virtue of being on dfa
― s.rose, Monday, 15 October 2007 22:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
I kinda wish they'd stick to the slow stuff - it suits them so much better than the clever-clogs dance shit. The title track of 'Made In The Dark' is stunning.
― Kiff, Sunday, 13 January 2008 22:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
Out at the Pictures, song of the year, right?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Sunday, 13 January 2008 23:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
agreed! i picked up Made in the Dark yesterday (promo copy, full artwork etc.) and it's fantastic. i liked the previous two records in spots, and not so much in others. but this is their best work, by far. very very good.
― stephen, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
i havn't even heard it yet but this shit is going to be huge around here
― gman, Sunday, 20 January 2008 17:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
made in the dark is a MASSIVE album. crikey.
― CharlieNo4, Friday, 25 January 2008 15:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
fuck these guys
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 25 January 2008 16:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
Has this leaked?
― Matt DC, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yep it's leaked, i agree about the slow stuff being better too. The background whistles in "We're Looking For A Lot of Love" are very nice
― theslothproject, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
i listened to this once on the drive down during xmas. i thought it was terrible. the wife who's a huge fan.. thought it was terrible.
― jaxon, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
i've only heard a couple tracks from this band ever, most of which i wasn't into, but that 'shake a fist' track is good.
― Jordan, Friday, 25 January 2008 17:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
― winston, Saturday, 26 January 2008 01:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
they certainly do inspire a great deal of ire, but it seems to be all based on their "impurity" and the fact that a lot of their fans seem to be obnoxious buttheads
― winston, Saturday, 26 January 2008 01:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
I liked/like "Boy From School" quite a bit, for one, but the tracks that I've heard from the new record sound like inferior OMD songs.
― dell, Saturday, 26 January 2008 04:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
They're actually pretty good, even if their new record suffers from some questionable sequencing. Their problem, listener-wise, is that they touch on a number of genres whose fans don't like each other very much.
― Simon H., Saturday, 26 January 2008 04:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
blah-di-blah... Anyway, I love most of the record and repeated listening pays off. I love how "Hold On" has got the feel & energy of Talking Heads ca. Stop Making Sense, including Byrne-guitar-chops - can't wait to see/hear that one performed live.
― willem, Saturday, 26 January 2008 08:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
This sounded really good on the first listen. The 'getting everything wrong in a good way' moments outweigh the 'getting everything wrong full stop' moments this time. I like the stadium rock guitar at the beginning of One Pure Thought. Not sure about Bendable Poseable though.
Also, they're much better at beats this time.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 February 2008 09:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
i wonder what their ep on victory garden is now worth
wish i'd bought it
― electricsound, Monday, 4 February 2008 09:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
Boring, and I liked the first two.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 4 February 2008 10:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
i don't like Ready For The Floor much - 'boring' and 'OMD' pretty much nail it!
― jabba hands, Monday, 4 February 2008 10:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ready For The Floor certainly doesn't sound good in a club in the way that Over and Over did.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 4 February 2008 10:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
Not really feeling this so far - sounds to me like the syndrome of "they were great until they thought they could do it" once again.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
no, it wouldn't sound good in a club. it's music for jogging. xp
― Cosmo Vitelli, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Over and Over didn't sound particularly good in clubs either.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:20 (5 years ago) Permalink
Actually I may be alone in thinking that Over & Over is kind of overrated.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's nowhere near the best song on The Warning. (Look After Me is, btw)
― nate woolls, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
I think it's a terrific record, though it seems like the two wings of their writing - Fisher-Price Danja Hands and Putney Delta blues ballads - are getting ever further apart... something the sequencing rather exacerbates. Good as it is, I'm not sure there's anything as good as 'Boy from school', which felt like a perfect midpoint between the two...
― Stevie T, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Over & Over"'s a fine record but not really one for the clubs; the original mix is (for those purposes) awkwardly non-committal.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
I danced to it a lot!
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 4 February 2008 12:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah, me too. and still prefer it to the remixes personally.
― blueski, Monday, 4 February 2008 13:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
i probably wouldn't dance to it now tho thanks to culture show
― blueski, Monday, 4 February 2008 13:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
I just realized my problem with Made in the Dark: it should end at "Wrestlers" (which sounds uncannily like Hot Shots II-era Beta Band) and be a flawless 44-minute record, but instead it's a lopsided 55-minute one.
Still one of the better recs so far this year.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
also "Out at the Pictures" should go on longer, it's amazing.
is that the first song? i like that.
i hate hate hate the spoken interlude in shake a fist.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
same. it reminds me of something off ninja tunes
― t_g, Thursday, 7 February 2008 08:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
It's Todd Rundgren! I love that part.
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
You'd be much better off buying Something/Anything? and have done with it.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
i realise it's todd rundgren! it's just that whole let's interrupt the song + have someone speaking like 'this is an audio test, now let's try the right channel' etc etc thing that bugs me (and reminds me of ninja tune)
― t_g, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:30 (5 years ago) Permalink
Really I'm just getting tired of record collection pop.
Admittedly Todd pretty much fired the starting pistol for record collection pop but he used his sources as inspiration rather than crutches.
This is my sticking point with the whole critical thing about oh isn't it so much better these days, all music ever made is freely available on t'internet and kids can pick n' mix and come up with all sorts of Heston Blumenthal-esque wacky fusions it's never been healthier.
But where's the backstory, the emotion, the purpose? Since the likes of Hot Chip are not Bill Burroughs they can't rely on the accidental effects of cut and paste in themselves (and in any case Burroughs never tried to pluck anything from thin air). All right, they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records. So have I. So what?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 7 February 2008 09:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
Have you written a song as catchy as "Shake a Fist"?
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
(Admittedly, that's a pretty strawman response to your post, but seriously - reducing their act to "they've bought or downloaded some old Todd records" is pretty ridiculous. I hear plenty of emotion and purpose. I mean, all you've really got here is "I don't care for their music," right?)
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
The last one was patchy but very good in places, SS. As was their first album.
But I don't see any aesthetic or emotional purpose in interrupting one of the better songs on this record to indulge their Vinyl Vultures fantasy and since it has zero relevance to the rest of the song and is not sufficiently amusing or startling for that not to matter then I question its inclusion.
Recommended listening: the "Titanic" middle part of "Oops...I Did It Again" and the Shortwave Set album.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
i had no idea that was todd rundgren!
― s1ocki, Thursday, 7 February 2008 14:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
I like it better than the previous ones. Still feels it's too sophisticated and too clever, and perhaps next time they will strike the right balance. In that case they will deliver a classic.
― zeus, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
The worst thing about the Rundgren bit is that they're jacking someone else's joke! Why didn't they just record they're own bit like that?
Crap Kraft Dinner remains their best song.
― Raw Patrick, Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
their
bcuz you would have ripped them for biting rundgren
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 February 2008 22:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
New song (or newish, was apparently given out to the first whatever number of people at one of the pre-album concerts) "Too Deep" on iTunes now.
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 23 March 2008 05:44 (5 years ago) Permalink
Both tracks from that 7" are probably still here.
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 24 March 2008 00:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
glad 'One Pure Thought' is the next single - best track on the album
― blueski, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:29 (5 years ago) Permalink
I kinda really like this band. Not sure what's holding me back from full embrace. The songs are so good, maybe it's the delivery. Maybe they're not fully embracing me!
― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 10 April 2008 17:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
do like the new album but its def their most commercial/most 80s.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 28 April 2008 18:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
They covered New Order's "Temptation" at Coachella.
― felicity, Monday, 28 April 2008 19:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
do we really need a breathy, "sincere" ween? When they sound this good, fuck yeah!
― forksclovetofu, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ0zYMeox0s&feature=related
― J0rdan S., Monday, 28 April 2008 20:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
Good clip.
― billstevejim, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
xxxpost
they've been doing that for a while now - they did the same "No Fit State" -> "Temptation" trick a year ago. it's still awesome as hell, though.
― jamescobo, Monday, 28 April 2008 23:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
I still like their "Crap Kraft Dinner" -> Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere"
― Savannah Smiles, Monday, 28 April 2008 23:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hmm, have gone back to Boy from School tonight for some reason, and now I can't stop listening to it. The programming is pretty brilliant on that track.
Also, I heard them when they were guest dj-ing on some BBC radio thing, and they played some pretty amazing stuff. I wish I had even the slightest clue as to what any of it was. I could sure use me some sweet sweet techno sounds tonight, though...
― dell, Monday, 26 May 2008 00:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
Amazing how Ready For The Floor has become a proper pop floor filler. Played it last night and people just went mental.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 May 2008 00:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
dell ill upload a the to diff versions of them doing 'boy from school' later. they rework that song a lot and the two i have are v. different but great
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 May 2008 01:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
wow
dell ill upload two diff versions**
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 May 2008 01:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
awesome, thanks!
― dell, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
dell you may be thinking of their essential mix from last year.
― haitch, Monday, 26 May 2008 01:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
this is a 7 min live version from the bonus disc of the new album. really good audio. http://www.zshare.net/audio/12576326eeadfca4/
this is an acoustic version from a bbc session i think and it just kills me everytime http://www.zshare.net/audio/1257647696475ed5/
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 May 2008 01:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
― banriquit, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:50 (4 years ago) Permalink
no
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 28 June 2008 22:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
Anyone else heard the Alexis Taylor album?
― Treblekicker, Monday, 27 October 2008 22:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
I haven't, but re: hot chip, I love the bit about a minute into "ready for the floor" when the chord changes and it shifts from a "track" to a "song".
― aaron d.g., Tuesday, 28 October 2008 00:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
holy crap. they have a song w/robert wyatt!
http://www.parlophone.co.uk/hotchip/
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
just listened. boring
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
apparently they have a cover of a vampire weekend song sung by peter gabriel also. :-/
the musics really good on their VW cover but not sure about the vocals.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
not sure about PG's vocals? whaaaaaa
― cutty, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
Love the Gabriel cover, was really stoked for the Wyatt collab but on first listen it's rather underwhelming and not Wyattesque enough.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Wyatt collab is zzzzzz
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
cutty sent me this, its pretty dope, i had to listen to it a couple times, i think its better than the original
― beyonc'e (max), Friday, 19 December 2008 01:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
id like their r kelly tribute/pisstake if it had slightly more genuine lyrics and not lines like 'aiming for your loins'.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
otherwise, the music (kinda like tvotr on blind meets prince) kills me.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
i need a whole album of hot chip and peter gabriel
― cutty, Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
So I am finally listening to Hot Chip for the first time ever.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 2 April 2009 08:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
First track on The Warning is fucking horrible. Next three very enjoyable.
made in the dark is better, thought stylus always overrated the warning a bit
"boy from school" is their best song tho
― strøm thurmond (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 April 2009 08:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
"the warning" (the song) is one of their best songs too
Neither are exactly perfect all the way through - The Warning is patchy in the first half and really picks up in the second half and its more delicate moments are gorgeous. Made In The Dark begins awesomely and then they start fannying around with stupid comedy nonsense like The Wrestlers and it falls apart.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
their delicate moments are always the best, i love the ballads on made in the dark
― strøm thurmond (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
ready for the floor>>>
― Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
I got both The Warning and MitD for £5 a piece.
What else is worth hearing; early EPs?
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
First album, Coming On Strong, is really good. Better than Made In The Dark.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
Their entry in the DJ Kicks series is almost worth hearing for their track 'My Piano', classic old school piano house banger.
― Alan Shearer's illegitimate, he ain't got no coaching certificate (Billy Dods), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah i love my piano, was hoping the whole of made in the dark would be as good as that
― just sayin, Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
first album is smug duff crud. plus it hung out in my girlfriends cd changer for about 2 years ruining every long car journey in this period. I liked the warning as it seemed theyd risen above the too smart to dance fanboy toss of the first and made a decent sounding album. boy from school had some good remixes. the last one is rubbish though, i also saw them in germany last summer and they were behaving like a bunch of bloody primadonnas because the fat one who hardly sings mic wasnt working
― straightola, Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
What a whingeing bastard.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
fuck these dudes?
― prins tuomas (The Reverend), Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
yes, fuck these dudes
― straightola, Thursday, 2 April 2009 09:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
didn't know they'd made a video for 'Wrestlers', fun
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 28 April 2009 01:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
"i need a whole album of hot chip and peter gabriel"
^^^^it is both better than the VW version and better than any other Hot Chip song that I've heard.
― akm, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 22:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
Where is it?
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 22:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
new stuff goin on - http://store.digitalstores.co.uk/hotchip/index.html
― just sayin, Monday, 2 November 2009 21:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
joe goddard solo album also imminent
― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 2 November 2009 21:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
I never listened to A Bugged Out Mix by Hot Chip from earlier in the year, so I wasn't familiar with "Take it In" before now, but a single version of it has went leaky and I'm really loving it.
Next album due in Feb '10 apparently?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 November 2009 15:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
They wax and wane in my affections, based largely on how patchy the albums are, but then they come back again with a killer single:
like this myspace video for One Life Stand
― Bill A, Monday, 14 December 2009 19:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Pitchfork are taking the piss right?
― Moka, Monday, 8 February 2010 16:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't have an opinion on hot chip in general but this is great:
!!!
― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Monday, 8 February 2010 17:04 (3 years ago) Permalink
I know nothing about these guys but their set at Lollapalooza was outstanding.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
They were rly under-par two weeks ago supporting LCD here
Not having Joe Goddard on board can’t have helped
― Teddybears.SHTML (sic), Monday, 9 August 2010 23:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
OK so I picked up One Life Stand and like it a lot, but I have to admit that their blueprint is endless variations of Sniff 'N The Tears' "Driver Seat"
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 23 August 2010 03:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
'Gabriel' by Joe Goddard is as good if not better than anything Hot Chip have ever done, I think.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 September 2011 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
attempting to gauge that statement by trying to remember exactly how you feel about hot chip
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 8 September 2011 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gabriel is fantastic though
― Number None, Thursday, 8 September 2011 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I really like Hot Chip, Gabriel is just such an earworm though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 September 2011 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
gabriel is great! we talked abt it on the dfa thread
― just sayin, Thursday, 8 September 2011 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
"gabriel" is kind of unexpectedly amazing O_O
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Friday, 9 September 2011 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
It reminds me of a Basement Jaxx single a bit, albeit a DIY Basement Jaxx single. Love the vocalist, whoever she is.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 10:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
valentina
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Friday, 9 September 2011 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'd like this band a whole lot more if it weren't for the singer's voice. Like, when I was describing King Creosote one time I said something along the lines of how he sings in a way that if it were anyone else it would come off extremely wanky and insincere, but somehow he manages not to, whereas Hot Chip guy really really does.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 10:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
What's that track that sounds like La Isla Bonita? I love that.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 10:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really? I think Hot Chip dude sounds almost painfully sincere a lot of the time.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 10:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
painful, i'll give you that. i can imagine it being a bit of a marmite thing. like, technically he's a very good singer, but something about the way he sings gets my back up. can't pinpoint why.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 10:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
"over-earnest" is a better word than insincere.
Is he over-earnest or insincere? Make your mind up.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 10:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
their music makes me think of really bland formulaic graphic design
someone played me a joe goddard album along with something called sbtrkt to demonstrate the kind of sounds she wanted to get. all i remember was that it had a little bit of everything current and fashionable in it. bit of dancehall, bit of pitched down vocals, bit of a disco stomp (the beats were wank). competent, but BORING.
nothing sounded particularly vital or exciting, the dancehall bits in particular bought the lolz, so weak and weedy
i'm sure there'll be a good remix or two tho
― Crackle Box, Friday, 9 September 2011 10:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dont think hot chip dude is a technically a good singer? i've heard little but he kind of speak sings mumbles in a fairly limited range
if you play this and then, say, chelonis r jones i think the sincerity thing is really obvious
hot chip is like "this is what we want to do, listen to our attempt at doing it"
chelonis is like "this is what i do, deal with it"
― Crackle Box, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
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lol yeah i was saying on the dfa thread that i think the fact that its a hot chip side project will stop ppl checking for it
― just sayin, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
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― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 11:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Crackle Box, "Gabriel" is in a different league from his album. one of my favourite tracks for a long time.
― jed_, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, the album was not good. It was 90% instrumentals iirc? The vocal really makes Gabriel.
― Number None, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
like, technically he's a very good singer
no he's not, lol
also...over-earnest and insincere mean opposite things, right?
i didn't take any notice of "gabriel" at first because it was a hot chip side project (and i don't even mind them) - v thankful their own vox are nowhere near it
― i asked for "HALF" a glass of wine, because i am TEMPERENT (lex pretend), Friday, 9 September 2011 11:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxposts Rather, his earnestness tips him into insincerity. I like one or two of their songs, but I agree with Crackle Box. His voice, and their overall sound, hint at what they're trying to do but fall short all too often. The emotions and attempts at zeitgeist-capturing pop have always sounded like they were knocked up in a brainstorming session called 'Things That Are Cool', ("Shutter shades", I like it, maybe a bit dated but we'll stick it up anyway. Okay, what else?)...
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 11:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was just mildly trolling because 'over-earnest' and 'insincere' are kind of the opposite of one another.
I think Alexis (or is it Joe?) has a reasonable falsetto (it sounds great on songs like Boy From School). He can certainly sing in tune, but his voice is kind of weedy and I can totally understand why that would be offputting. I'm put off by it sometimes as well.
I don't really see the point in comparing them to Chelonis at all, I don't think they're even aiming for the same thing.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Argh xpost.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can see how over-earnest and insincere could produce a similar effect in a vocal even though they are different.
― jed_, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think they're going for "Things That Are Cool" generally. I just think they're music geeks who try to stuff as many of the different sounds they like into their music as they can. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Goddard is a big UK Funky fan i believe, which you can hear in "Gabriel"
― Number None, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Boys From School is good - and yeah it's an example of his voice working well with the track.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 11:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Something I don't really understand: About Group. What I've heard is nowhere near as interesting as it was made out to be in the interview I read.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Friday, 9 September 2011 11:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
no they're not aiming for the same thing, that wasn't the point, it's just an attitude thing, i'm not really into that dilettante approach to stuff
and yeh, i just listened to gabriel and yeah it's really good, that "girl you've gone to far" bit is stuck in my head already. hope he gets a hit out of it. i didn't want to like it, but it's all that vocalist rlly. again, look forward to the remixes
― Crackle Box, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can see why the dilettante thing would be offputting as well - at the same time I get the feeling that being in Hot Chip is probably more fun than being in most bands.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like the way that any given time there can be four or five "Hot Chip DJ Sets" happening simultaneously around the world. A couple of the lesser members have DJ'd more than once in my home town, which no one of note ever comes to. Gotta get that paper
― Number None, Friday, 9 September 2011 11:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe only three or four simultaneously, I think some of them only DJ with another one. Joe also DJs with both 2 Bears and Greco-Roman Soundsystem tho
About Group is literally just some jams to tape, easy to not find that interesting. I got the first band-name-less album, s'alright but they're no Necks
Alexis has the falsetto, Joe has a much deeper voice, which I really love when they use it as a counterpoint to Alexis (whether in normal register or fluting and cracking), but they seem to feature him less and less as the band goes on
― challopian rubes (sic), Friday, 9 September 2011 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
heard them (one of them) dj once and they did that HORRIBLE franchise club dj thing of playing a million intros to tracks and never getting through a song before thinking of some other 'amazing' track to mix it with. Gave me a fucking headache. Not to say the selection of songs were bad but jesus it made me weary.
― owenf, Friday, 9 September 2011 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
radiomix #19: Joe Goddard - http://dfarecords.com/main/archives/2504
― just sayin, Monday, 19 September 2011 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
01. Life Is Something Special (Acapella) - NYC Peech Boys02. Pata Pata - Matias Aguayo feat. Lerato03. Thru the Skies (Beats) - Kenlou04. Together Forever - Exodus (Acapella)05. Jungle Jazz - Cajmere06. Getting Me Down - Blawan07. Gabriel (Dub) - Joe Goddard08. Heres Your Trance Now Dance - Omar S09. Down! - Kyle Hall10. Pretty Baby- Sister Sledge (Bootleg)11. Love and Happiness - Voyage Direct12. Man or Mistress - Levon Vincent13. I Got That Feeling - Dreamer G14. The Freak Inside - Chicago Housing Authority15. Dirty Love - Linkwood w/Gabriel Acapella16. Chicano (Danny Krivit Edit) - Black Blood17. Sicko Cell18 Check Out 5 - Naif Orchestra
So The 2 Bears album then? It's pretty good
― Number None, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
if the vocals on 'work' put me off, how will i feel abt the album
― just sayin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah you're probably not gonna like it
― Number None, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 10:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
i listened to a bit of it today and thought... "big beat is back"? 'work' is pretty good, if you can overcome the vocals. i think i prefer joe's solo stuff
― cuteforce, Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
ILM's most hate to love/love to hate group will have a new album in 2012
http://pitchfork.com/news/45596-hot-chip-get-in-our-heads-on-new-album/Hot Chip are back with a new album, new tour, and a new label. On June 12 in the U.S. and June 11 in the UK, they'll release In Our Heads on Domino, a departure from longtime home DFA/Astralwerks. The follow-up to 2010's One Life Stand was produced by Hot Chip themselves with producer/engineer Mark Ralph.
The band will hit the road this summer, including a stop at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.
In Our Heads:
01 Motion Sickness02 How Do You Do03 Don't Deny Your Heart04 Look at Where We Are05 These Chains06 Night and Day 07 Flutes 08 Now There Is Nothing 09 Ends of the Earth 10 Let Me Be Him 11 Always Been Your Love
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 1 March 2012 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
06: Al B. Sure! cover? One can dream.
― andrew m., Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love "One Night Stand" so much. I hope they play more than the Fork Fest here, though given Hot Chip's past tours, I bet they hit Chicago five times in 2012.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
One Life Stand is my favourite albums of theirs, really excited for the this.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 3 March 2012 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Flutes" is kind of awesome. It has an honest-to-god propulsive beat!
― "I know its hard to hear but I'm a Realest." (rennavate), Thursday, 15 March 2012 17:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
ILM's most hate to love/love to hate group
Really? Always thought they were largely controversial and mildly to well liked here.
My reaction to the new track is basically the same as all the others - great song, shame about the voice. But I usually get used to the voice after a while and find myself wondering why it bothered me.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 16 March 2012 11:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm sure his voice didn't always use to be this bad - it was never great but for the past few years it's been unlistenable
― lex pretend, Friday, 16 March 2012 11:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's weird, it's sort of quavery but he's never actually out of tune, so after a while I get used to it. There are two vocalists and I think the quavery one has been doing more of late. Wish he'd sing in the lower register more though, but this goes for basically all male singers ever with me, especially indie dudes.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 16 March 2012 11:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's definitely worse. I haven't been able to listen to anything since the first two albums because of that voice.
― nate woolls, Friday, 16 March 2012 11:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Huh. I find the singing in Hot Chip possibly its greatest attribute. No joke. Reminds me of ... Squeeze? I don't know, but I love how approachable they are.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 March 2012 11:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hated the vocals on One Life Stand at first and then grew to love pretty much the whole album, but when Gabriel came out last year it reminded me of how amazing Hot Chip could have been had they gone down the Basement Jaxx route and roped in a rotating cast of singers.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 16 March 2012 11:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
What an obnoxious video!
― Walter Galt, Friday, 16 March 2012 11:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
These guys ran out of ideas a long time ago.
― viborg, Friday, 16 March 2012 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just heard Flutes from the upcoming release. Love it, dreamy and v. pretty. I have a weak spot for synth pop, though, so good -> grrreat.
― Spectrum, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 20:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
First proper single is out there. It's very addictive.
http://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/hot-chip-night-day-radio-edit
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 21:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Every time there's a new Hot Chip single and I hear praise on it I get a bit excited and hopeful, then I listen to it and feel frustrated by the horrible vocals. This is no different.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 20 April 2012 08:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Like I know I shouldn't ever expect the vocals to not be insufferably twee by this point but there's so much muscle in this new effort, it all seems so mismatched with a frustrating amount of potential.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 20 April 2012 08:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love this, especially the deadpan DJ bit. "I like Zapp not Zappa/So Stop your jibber-jabber." I don't mind Alexis's vocals as long as he's not doing ballads.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 20 April 2012 08:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think the new single is fierce!
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 20 April 2012 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't mind Alexis's vocals as long as he's not doing ballads.
he should definitely get Joe to sing those
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
dude's voice is actually the exact opposite of fierce
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Saturday, 21 April 2012 07:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow this is just... wow. i am so mad i decided to listen to that.
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Saturday, 21 April 2012 07:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
He reminds me of Tom Ellard from Severed Heads, but at least Ellard had the sense to filter/distort his vocals.
― Turkey, Sunday, 22 April 2012 06:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been a Hot Chip apologist for a long time, but it ends now.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 22 April 2012 06:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm kind of in love with this at the moment.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 19 May 2012 17:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
so Grosvenor blokey is a full member now?
Alexis voice sounds fine there btw
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 20 May 2012 11:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I keep warming to them a little more with each passing year. From a starting position of "Who are these jokers?" I am now at "I think Hot Chip are probably the best modern British band." Which is not something I expected to believe.
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens), Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
funny, i've gone the other way - i found them to be overall a Good Thing earlier in their career, maybe not a band i'd be obsessed about but reliable for the occasional great jam, enjoyable live show that no one in any group would object to, fun DJ sets, good fodder for remixers. but ennui has definitely set in over the years as it becomes more and more clear that they're just the kind of journeymen whose output is permanently stuck at three-star quality. i listened to the new one out of a sense of duty and was relieved when it finished..
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 11:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
sounds bloody awful imo.
― jed_, Monday, 21 May 2012 12:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
well comparatively!
though if Grosvenor's up playing things and singing now it would be a boon to turn most of the vocals over to him and Joe
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Monday, 21 May 2012 12:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens)
I kind of agree with this. Really hated them when I first heard them, did not get the fuss about Over & Over at all but now they might just be my favourite British band around. Night & Day is the weakest of the new tracks I've heard but that one I just posted is one of the best things they've done. There's like 3 great choruses in that song. As for his vocals I've no problem with them at all, he always sounds really vulnerable which kind of works with how warm the music is.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 21 May 2012 13:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like a couple of songs off each album. I don't think they've ever managed to be inspired enough, often enough. I like the idea of them.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 21 May 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think their last two albums are head and shoulders above the first three. It's like they've always loved dance music but for ages they felt obliged to put air quotes around it. The new album makes me think of New Order's Technique.
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't like Alexis' trousers.
― djh, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 02:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
sounds good
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/03/154073556/first-listen-hot-chip-in-our-heads
― Number None, Monday, 4 June 2012 15:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
New album is really good. Let Me Be Him might just be the most moving song they've done.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Incredible song - maybe their best yet.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 11:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
The album version of "Don't Deny Your Heart" is fucking ace.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm loving this album
― Number None, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 12:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
thirding the Don't Deny Your Heart love
― caulk the wagon and float it, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 14:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
the first song on this is fucking amazing
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
so if I've been skeptical since 2006 should I listen?
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Don't Deny Your Heart" is good!
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
― J0rdan S
Might be my favourite opening track they've done.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
(Also, incredible live act, which helps)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 12:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
The dinkiness has always bothered me but it sounds – on first listen – like they've developed their grooves.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I disagree re New Order.
I do love "One Life Stand" the single.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
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!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not going to take sides but this album really reminds me of Technique in its balance of introvert and extrovert.
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
exactly. I understand their goofiness attracts people; to me it sounds arch.
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 14:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think "Made in the Dark" is the weird, hard to get into one.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
omigod the one that goes MEVSYOUVSMEVSYOUVSMEVSYOU is exactly what I mean about their cuteness
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 June 2012 11:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 17:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
max to life
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
"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 (11 months ago) Permalink
the FACT review of this was some bullshit
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
"motion sickness" is just amazing
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
now THAT song is gorgeous.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:55 (11 months ago) Permalink
"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 (11 months ago) Permalink
so is "Look At Where We Are"
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
"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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
― ♆ (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 (11 months ago) Permalink
however do we need him
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 02:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
I get a hint of a, uh, sincere take on "Tarzan Boy".
― etc, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 13:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
ha yeah i immediately thought of Sky Was Pink when i heard that
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh you mentioned that days ago too
yeah, they've acknowledged it's a rip
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 22:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
they have? link?
― ♆ (gr8080), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
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?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
i tried getting into this but the vocals kill it for me, pass
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 21 June 2012 16:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
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 (11 months ago) Permalink
some of Turner's high notes still irritate me, yes
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 June 2012 20:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
this is pretty good you know
never really given these guys the time of day tbh
― r|t|c, Thursday, 21 June 2012 21:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is a pretty neat album. Only place the singing got to me was "Look At Where We Are."
― the magic butterfly made everyone feel relaxed (Abbbottt), Friday, 22 June 2012 01:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
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!
― jed_, Friday, 22 June 2012 01:58 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 22 June 2012 02:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
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?
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 June 2012 09:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― star-spangled david banner (lex pretend), Friday, 22 June 2012 09:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hah, I was thinking that a proper R&B singer could have made a hit out of 'Look At Where We Are'.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 June 2012 09:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
(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.
― star-spangled david banner (lex pretend), Friday, 22 June 2012 09:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
no way, ppl love that shit
remember when solange covered the dirty projectors
― just sayin, Friday, 22 June 2012 10:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Get wolves (DL), Friday, 22 June 2012 10:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
holy shit, i love "let me be him". it's very moving.
― jed_, Friday, 22 June 2012 23:28 (11 months ago) Permalink
enjoying their NPR live streaming gig. "Ready for the Floor" -> "Everywhere" pretty great.
Ending with "Let Me Be Him".
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:29 (11 months ago) Permalink
killed it on Fallon
― Aerosol, Friday, 20 July 2012 05:37 (10 months ago) Permalink
The sound mix wasn't doing them any favors, but energetic nerds are always fun to watch.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 20 July 2012 05:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
Up here - another new drummer?! (no questo)
― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Friday, 20 July 2012 06:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
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
― heiswagger (rennavate), Friday, 20 July 2012 14:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
They had to recruit this guy to play drums for the U.S. dates. Current drummer had visa trouble and couldn't come over.
― andrew m., Friday, 20 July 2012 14:46 (10 months ago) Permalink
pretty good at Pitchfork but the sound was a bit...muffled? I don't know.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 July 2012 15:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
― heiswagger (rennavate)
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?
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 20 July 2012 19:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
Seeing them tomorrow night! So excited.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Saturday, 21 July 2012 04:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 21 July 2012 04:35 (10 months ago) Permalink
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.
― muus lääv? :D muus dut :( (Telephone thing), Sunday, 22 July 2012 04:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
So "Let Me Be Him" is the best thing ever, amirite?
― heiswagger (rennavate), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
Let Me Be Him is indeed excellent but think I would put Motion Sickness, Don't Deny Your Heart and Flutes ahead of it.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 20:00 (10 months ago) Permalink
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
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 26 November 2012 13:03 (6 months ago) Permalink